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As the Computer Controls division of Honeywell, it introduced further DDP-series computers, and was a $100,000,000 business until 1970 when Honeywell purchased GE's computer division and discontinued development of the DDP line. [6] In a 1970 essay, Murray Bookchin used the DDP-124 as his example of computer progress:
Control Data Corporation (CDC) was a mainframe and supercomputer company that in the 1960s was one of the nine major U.S. computer companies, which group included IBM, the Burroughs Corporation, and the Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC), the NCR Corporation (NCR), General Electric, and Honeywell, RCA and UNIVAC.
Damen Avenue is a street in Chicago, where it is 2000 West in the grid. It is 2.5 miles (4.0 km) west of State Street, the city's north–south baseline.Known as Robey Street for politician James Robey prior to 1927, it was renamed in honor of Father Arnold Damen. [1]
Southbound traffic exits via Washington Avenue/Shagbark Road; northbound traffic exits via Skokie Valley Road: North Chicago: 49.6: 79.8: IL 137 (Buckley Road) Waukegan: 51.6: 83.0 — Northpoint Boulevard: Southbound exit and entrance: 52.0: 83.7 — Old Skokie Highway: Northbound exit and entrance: 52.4: 84.3 — IL 120 (Belvidere Road ...
Lake Shore Drive (officially Jean Baptiste Pointe du Sable Lake Shore Drive; [2] [3] also known as DuSable Lake Shore Drive, [4] the Outer Drive, [5] the Drive, LSD or DLSD) is a semi-limited access expressway that runs alongside the shoreline of Lake Michigan and its adjacent parkland and beaches in Chicago, Illinois.
Wacker Drive is a major multilevel street in Chicago, Illinois, running along the south side of the main branch and the east side of the south branch of the Chicago River in the Loop. [2] The vast majority of the street is double-decked ; the upper level is intended for regular street-level traffic, and the lower level for service vehicles ...
Dempster Street resumes at Rand Road and Interstate 294 (Tri-State Tollway) in Des Plaines and Park Ridge. At this point, U.S. Route 14 joins the road. Dempster Street, as well as U.S. Route 14, continues west as Miner Street. In Niles and Park Ridge, the road intersects Cumberland Avenue and Illinois Route 21 (Milwaukee Avenue).
The amusement park remained open from 1904 until 1967. The park's property is now home to the Riverview Plaza shopping center, the Belmont District Police Station, and DeVry Institute of Technology. One of the landmarks on Belmont Avenue was the Bally Manufacturing Corporation complex located between Washtenaw and Rockwell. The building ...