2 of 3 Control Data HQ Towers c. 1985

Mall of America (left) & 3 Control Data HQ towers at 8100 34h Ave S (2016-01-03)

CIM/ICEM Inc. SW dev (a.k.a. the Swamp, a.k.a. Arden Woods) and
CDC computer manufacturing plant in Arden Hills aerial view (2016-01-05)

CIM/ICEM Inc. SW dev (a.k.a. the Swamp, a.k.a. Arden Woods) and
CDC computer manufacturing plant in Arden Hills aerial map view (2016-01-03)

CDC computers & offices featured in movies

"The Thief Who Came to Dinner" (1973; Bud Yorkin, Walter Hill, Terrence Lore Smith, Ryan O'Neal)

"Die Hard" (1988; John McTiernan, Roderick Thorp, Bruce Willis, Reginald VelJohnson; they murdered my computers!)

"They Live" (1988; John Carpenter, Roddy Piper; bill-boards)

I thought I already had this section on this page years ago. Must re-construct...jgo

Comprehensive Assembly language - COMPASS
CPU & PPU insructions
pseudo-instructions

CIM division: Joe Dudziak retirement picnic
the cake
candid close examination of the cake
Joe D
Mitch "mad scientist" skit
VP introduces guest of honor
candid zoom on rapt listeners
candid lining up for food
candid cake and conversation
candid milling about 127
candid milling about 128
candid milling about 129
candid milling about 130
candid milling about 131
candid milling about 132
candid milling about 134
candid milling about 138
candid milling about 139
If you see yourself or have names, drop me a line.

party
Rhonda the receptionist/sys admin and Rod
Amy the office jazz expert

Cyber 930 from the roll-out brochure
signatures of some of those involved in development of the 930

Control Data Corporation histories, etc.
Control Data Corporation was founded 1957-07-08 (ACM digital library; pay-walled pdf)
Control Data Corporation (wikipedia)
Control Data Corporation (map of locations explicitly mentioned in above article)
Control Data Corporation time-line sketch (U of Minnesota)
sens agent history
Museum at Waalsdorp, Netherlands: 1983-1986: Control Data Cyber 170-835
Museum at Waalsdorp, Netherlands: 1983-1986: Control Data Cyber 170-835 at Toegepast Natuurwetenschappelijk Onderzoek (TNO; Netherlands Organization for Applied Scientific Research)
Cyber 170/180/800 series general description transition from 60-bit words to 64-bit words, to byte-addressability, from 1's complement to [accursed] 2's complement (with loss of the valuable -0 "missing data" indicator), "virtual memory", caches, recursion stacks, microcode, addition of trap interrupts to exchange interrupts, MLS (multi-level security) & code vs. data segregation, code-sharing between processes, improved source code library/ version control/ configuration management tools, ability to continue running 60-bit NOS, VE/UX Unix, TCE (Transparent Computing Environment) for drag-and-drop between windows ease-of-use among Cybers, Macintosh, Windoze, Vax/VMS, DataGeneral AOS/VS, flavors of Unix (Irix, SCO Unix, AT&T Unix, Linux), word-processing, text-editing, page lay-out, spread-sheet applications...
1985-07-03: Michael Abramowitz: LATimes: Commercial Credit Corp moves to re-structure; lost $21M it had contributed to Ohio private insurance fund for thrifts
Commercial Credit Corp was subsequently merged into Travelers [insurance] Group, then into CitiCorp.
1989-06-13: John Markof: NYTimes: Control Data Corp to sell disk drive subsidiary Imprimis Technology, formerly Magnetic Peripherals, to Seagate; once was part of a joint venture with Seagate that developed the Wren 10MB drive for micro-computers about 1985
1992-05-28: Lawrence M. Fisher: NYTimes: Control Data Corp to split into Ceridian (including Arbitron ratings, pay-roll & HR records processing, sys admin & network management) and Control Data Systems Inc. (to be headed by James E. Ousley to continue manufacturing computer hardware); has not turned a profit since 1988 and has sold, spun out, or closed some 20 subsidiaries
2016-08-08/ 2018-05-23/ 2018-06-11: Jonathan Martin: OxfordU/Cengage Encyclopedia: incorporated 1957 as Control Data Corporation with capital of $600K: article claims there were still 18K employees, sales of $2.83G; founded 1945 as Engineering Research Associates (ERA); 1500 employees in 1952 with 80% of USA installed computer systems; 1961 started making peripheral...; peak employment about 65K
1995 March: John Pound: Hahvahd Bidness Review: executive management, board governance of corporations, and bad decisions

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PLAyTOy
Game Tech Wiki: PLAyTOy
Tutor Programming Language/PLAyTOy Author Language
Empire/Conquest (PLAyTOy video-games)
FSU PLAyTOy FSU was one of the first, c.1974, to allow use of the general-purpose operating system (Kronos, NOS) at the same time there were PLAyTOy users.
Control Data Corporation (like2do) (OK, but the Cyber 910 was CDC's micro-computer, rolled out around 1980. The Cyber 930 mini-computer was manufactured in Canada and announced in 1986.)

Control Data Corporation early super-computer information (60bits.net)
CDC 6000 series computers
CDC 7600
CDC Cyber computers
CDC Cyber computers (Cray-Cyber.org)

CDC Kronos operating system
CDC NOS (Network Operating System)
CDC NOS/VE (Network Operating System/Virtual Environment)
William Schaub: Long Ears for Life: building Kermit for NOS2

Whetstone computing speed bench-mark history and results (Roy Longbottom)
more speed measures in millions of floating-point operations per second (MFlOPS) (215 Mofett Park Dr., Sunnyvale Operations/SVLOPS/Bayview Club)
⋐ontrol ⋑ata Corporation SVLOPS
⋐ontrol ⋑ata Corporation SVLOPS
⋐ontrol ⋑ata Corporation SVLOPS

The Specialty Lab (CDC Central Qualification and Testing Lab)
Jonathan Martin: Control Data Corporation was founded 1957 and had an estimated 65K employees in the early 1980s (encyclopedia.com undated article probably written in early 1990s)

BitSavers: Control Data Corp. Integrated Computer-aided Engineering & Manufacturing (ICEM)) manuals

Computer History Museum: Control Data Corp. manuals

Funding Universe: company histories: Arbitron founded in 1949, bought by Control Data Corp. in 1960, spun out in 2001; radio rating though experimented with TV ratings for several years in mid-1980s (Funding Universe)
2014-05-01: Minnesota Educational Computing Consortium (MECC), Control Data Corp., PLAyTOy, video-games 1960s - 1990s (Low End Mac)
Museum at Waalsdorp, Netherlands: background info on NOS/VE
Museum at Waalsdorp, Netherlands: background info on NOS/VE libraries & utilities

DtCyber (desk-top Cyber) Cyber 175/750 emulator developed by Tom Hunter c.2003

Cyber1.org FAQ

Cray-Cyber.org allegedly continues running a Cray and a Cyber with access over the net

HCCC retro: CyberClient

60 bits.net

The BUNCH (Burroughs, Univac, National Cash Register, Control Data Corporation, Honeywell)

John C. Dvorak: IBM and the 7 Dwarves

Australian Computer Society: heritage project chapter 8

2010-01-22/2018-02-06: Vangie Beal: Webopedia: the 5 generations of computers

5th generation computer

will the USA lead in quantum computing?

Patrick James Hanratty: ICEM/DDN, which we mostly thought of as 2.5-D parametric/wire-frame CAD/CAM/CAE software, started as his software. CDC had half a dozen guys who ported it to run on Cybers and we paid a small percentage on sales back to Hanratty (on a value-added resale basis), who was supposed to do bug repairs and enhancements. But he & his guys could not keep up with our customers' demands. So, CDC paid them a big chunk of money, hired up, and took on those bug repairs and enhancements. I think they must have hired at least half of the U of Minnesota computer science & mechanical engineering students for at least 2-3 years, a couple from Illinois, 1 or 2 from Purdue, etc., and quite a few CDC internal transfers, as the "manufacturing data center" was converted into the Computer-Integrated Manuacturing (CIM) division. That was about the same time Hanratty released Anvil; I remember seeing their display at a computer graphics conference the Summer we were working on a direct from ComputerVision to ICEM/DDN design file transfer program... which was never sold, nor used except in testing it.
The start-up group, Manufacturing Tech Data Center, had ported ICEM/DDN to run on Data General minicomputers, and we had a small office in the San Diego area, North of UCSD, South of Del Mar, along Sorrento Valley Road, that took care of DG-specific matters.
"The Docs" had Ph.D.s in CS, math, or mechanical engineering, & their offices were on the Western end of the 2nd floor at "The Swamp". They added Beziér curves, Gouraud shading, developed our 2-display semi-smart work-station/Schnittstellen and ported ICEM/DDN to run on SunOS/Solaris, AT&T UNIX, Silicon Graphics Irix.
Mitch, Lisa, Herman, & a couple others took care to keep the 3rd party software for several kinds of computer-aided engineering (CAE) & solid modeling working with it.
We also had people scoping out links with data-bases for Manufacturing Requirements Planning (MRP), and exploring the shift to OOD/OOP. (In the time since, MRP has expanded into Enterprise Resource Planning, with various privacy-violation schemes built-in, and the Forces of Evil promoting the heck out of it!*+*%$#!)

2010-07-01: Patrick Waurzyniak: SME: Masters of Manufacturing: Patrick James Hanratty

WickedPedia

1998-10-31: American Machinist: the CAD/CAM Hall of Fame: Patrick James Hanratty, John T. Parsons, Ivan E. Sutherland

2021-12-26: History Computer: Ivan E. Sutherland

WickedPedia: Ivan Edward Sutherland

National Inventors Hall of Fame: Ivan E. Sutherland

J.A.N. Lee: IEEE Computer Society: Computer Pioneers: Ivan Edward Sutherland

WickedPedia: Pierre Bézier 1910-09-01 to 1999-11-25

WickedPedia: Henri Gouraud