Control Data Corporation (CDC) was a supercomputer firm. CDC was one of the nine major United States computer companies through most of the 1960s; the others were IBM, Burroughs Corporation, DEC, NCR, General Electric, Honeywell, RCA, and UNIVAC. CDC was well-known and highly regarded throughout the industry at the time. For most of the 1960s, Seymour Cray worked at CDC and developed a series of machines that were the fastest computers in the world by far, until Cray left the company to found Cray Research (CRI) in the 1970s. After several years of losses in the early 1980s, in 1988 CDC started to leave the computer manufacturing business and sell the related parts of the company, a process that was completed in 1992 with the creation of Control Data Systems, Inc. The remaining businesses of CDC currently operate as Ceridian.
Background and origins: World War II–1957
During World War II the U.S. Navy had built up a team of engineers to build codebreaking machinery for both Japanese and German electro-mechanical ciphers. A number of these were produced by a team dedicated to the task working in the Washington, D.C., area. With the post-war wind-down of military spending, the Navy grew increasingly worried that this team would break up and scatter into various companies, and it started looking for ways to covertly keep the team together.
1966 Control Data Corporation CDC 3600 Supercomputer, Computer History Film
A unique 1966 film by CSIRO showing how computers can help with classification of data, utilizing a Control Data Corporation CDC 3600 Supercomputer. - Nicely filmed and narrated, it covers the whole cycle of data collection, formatting, input, verification, processing and output in a very comfortable, easy-to-follow scenario.
Brief and non-technical, it includes somewhat rare footage of a CDC 3600 in operation.
Peripherals shown including CDC tape drives, printers, plotter and an IBM model 56 punch card verifier. We hope you enjoy this great piece of computing history.
Our thanks to CSIRO (Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization for allowing us to reproduce this film.
https://www.csiro.au/
Scenes, Images and Peripherals by Time Index:
Opening Scenes: ...
published: 29 Aug 2018
Westinghouse & Control Data Corporation - NOS/VE (1984)
This video describes the relationship between Westinghouse Electric Corporation and Control Data Corporation. It focuses on the Network Operating System: Virtual Environment (NOS/VE). This video was taped at the Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center located at the Westinghouse Energy Center in Monroeville PA. The video features Jim Kasdorf, former Westinghouse manager and present director at the Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center.
published: 17 Jul 2011
Control Data Corporation - The expanding Supercomputer ETA - 10
Advertisement from CDC (Control Data Corporation) about the expanding Supercomputer ETA-10.
Source : http://pa0gri.ampr.org/cdc/videos.html
published: 09 Nov 2018
1960's PLATO Computer System - Computer Aided Learning CAI CBT CDC Control Data Educational
A brief presentation highlighting early PLATO Computer Based Education systems. This presentation is an independent research project by Computer History Archives Project. For an in-depth look at PLATO’s fascinating history, we suggest the following resources.
The Charles Babbage Institute
http://www.cbi.umn.edu/iterations/van...
Special Thanks to: Arvid Nelson, Curator and Archivist,
and
The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
https://physics.illinois.edu/history/...
Special Thanks to: Linda S. Stahnke, Archival Operations & Reference Specialist
And:
http://platohistory.org/about/ (by Brian Dear)
http://thinkofit.com/plato/dwplato.htm
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PLATO_(...)
Plato@50 (YouTube) a conference series, hosted by Computer Museum (Mountain View, CA)
http://www.Cyb...
published: 02 Feb 2016
Control Data Corporation BJ7D5-A
Status: WORKING / FUNCTIONAL
Manufacture Date: October 3rd, 1985.
Interface: MFM
Capacity: 30MB
Platters: 3
Heads: 5
published: 18 Jun 2021
Control Data 3300
Control Data 3300
music by badtracking (https://badtracking.bandcamp.com/)
original video uploaded as "History of Computer Graphics (1972)" by VintageCG here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NXkkr0REEPI
published: 26 Apr 2021
Inside the CDC 6500
The newest arrival at Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen's Living Computer Museum in Seattle is a big one — both literally and figuratively. Weighing more than 10,000 pounds, the Control Data Corporation 6500 is part of a line of machines that were the first to be called "supercomputers." It was turned off in 1989 after two decades at Purdue University. Now, Allen's engineers in Seattle are preparing to bring it back to life. The restoration will take an estimated two years — a project so challenging that there's no guarantee of success.
published: 15 Dec 2013
Control Data Corporation
Provided to YouTube by The Orchard Enterprises
Control Data Corporation · Benfay
Hey, What's Wrong Baby!
℗ 2010 Everestrecords
Released on: 2010-09-03
Auto-generated by YouTube.
A unique 1966 film by CSIRO showing how computers can help with classification of data, utilizing a Control Data Corporation CDC 3600 Supercomputer. - Nicel...
A unique 1966 film by CSIRO showing how computers can help with classification of data, utilizing a Control Data Corporation CDC 3600 Supercomputer. - Nicely filmed and narrated, it covers the whole cycle of data collection, formatting, input, verification, processing and output in a very comfortable, easy-to-follow scenario.
Brief and non-technical, it includes somewhat rare footage of a CDC 3600 in operation.
Peripherals shown including CDC tape drives, printers, plotter and an IBM model 56 punch card verifier. We hope you enjoy this great piece of computing history.
Our thanks to CSIRO (Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization for allowing us to reproduce this film.
https://www.csiro.au/
Scenes, Images and Peripherals by Time Index:
Opening Scenes: 00:22
Man using IBM 80 Column Punch Card Input Form 02:50
Data entry, IBM Punch Cards and IBM 056 Verifier 03:22
Punch card program decks and data cards 04:03
Computer Room, CDC 3600 console, tapes 04:39
CDC 3600 Operator at Control Console 05:03
High-Speed Card Reader 05:41
Computer Core Memory Unit 06:10
Magnetic Tape Unit close-up 06:13
CDC 3600 Arithmetic Unit CPU 06:29
Line Printer and Output 06:40
CDC 3293 Plotter (Calcomp 565) 07:49
Appendix and More Info Slides 10:25
Recommended Resources: --
Control Data Systems, Inc. History
http://www.fundinguniverse.com/company-histories/control-data-systems-inc-history/
Chronology of Control Data Corporation (at Charles Babbage Institute)
http://www.cbi.umn.edu/resources/mncomphist-c.html#cdc
VIDEOS:
Control Data Corporation CDC 6600
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rCYVcL8Ud1A&t=8s
1967 - CDC 6600 - Control Data Corporation (brief excerpt) mainframe Naval Weather
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mLuh_O4mYbA
PLATO Computer Systems - computer aided learning - CAL CAI CBT education
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tTmWcGhlXqA
A unique 1966 film by CSIRO showing how computers can help with classification of data, utilizing a Control Data Corporation CDC 3600 Supercomputer. - Nicely filmed and narrated, it covers the whole cycle of data collection, formatting, input, verification, processing and output in a very comfortable, easy-to-follow scenario.
Brief and non-technical, it includes somewhat rare footage of a CDC 3600 in operation.
Peripherals shown including CDC tape drives, printers, plotter and an IBM model 56 punch card verifier. We hope you enjoy this great piece of computing history.
Our thanks to CSIRO (Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization for allowing us to reproduce this film.
https://www.csiro.au/
Scenes, Images and Peripherals by Time Index:
Opening Scenes: 00:22
Man using IBM 80 Column Punch Card Input Form 02:50
Data entry, IBM Punch Cards and IBM 056 Verifier 03:22
Punch card program decks and data cards 04:03
Computer Room, CDC 3600 console, tapes 04:39
CDC 3600 Operator at Control Console 05:03
High-Speed Card Reader 05:41
Computer Core Memory Unit 06:10
Magnetic Tape Unit close-up 06:13
CDC 3600 Arithmetic Unit CPU 06:29
Line Printer and Output 06:40
CDC 3293 Plotter (Calcomp 565) 07:49
Appendix and More Info Slides 10:25
Recommended Resources: --
Control Data Systems, Inc. History
http://www.fundinguniverse.com/company-histories/control-data-systems-inc-history/
Chronology of Control Data Corporation (at Charles Babbage Institute)
http://www.cbi.umn.edu/resources/mncomphist-c.html#cdc
VIDEOS:
Control Data Corporation CDC 6600
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rCYVcL8Ud1A&t=8s
1967 - CDC 6600 - Control Data Corporation (brief excerpt) mainframe Naval Weather
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mLuh_O4mYbA
PLATO Computer Systems - computer aided learning - CAL CAI CBT education
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tTmWcGhlXqA
This video describes the relationship between Westinghouse Electric Corporation and Control Data Corporation. It focuses on the Network Operating System: Virtua...
This video describes the relationship between Westinghouse Electric Corporation and Control Data Corporation. It focuses on the Network Operating System: Virtual Environment (NOS/VE). This video was taped at the Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center located at the Westinghouse Energy Center in Monroeville PA. The video features Jim Kasdorf, former Westinghouse manager and present director at the Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center.
This video describes the relationship between Westinghouse Electric Corporation and Control Data Corporation. It focuses on the Network Operating System: Virtual Environment (NOS/VE). This video was taped at the Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center located at the Westinghouse Energy Center in Monroeville PA. The video features Jim Kasdorf, former Westinghouse manager and present director at the Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center.
A brief presentation highlighting early PLATO Computer Based Education systems. This presentation is an independent research project by Computer History Archive...
A brief presentation highlighting early PLATO Computer Based Education systems. This presentation is an independent research project by Computer History Archives Project. For an in-depth look at PLATO’s fascinating history, we suggest the following resources.
The Charles Babbage Institute
http://www.cbi.umn.edu/iterations/van...
Special Thanks to: Arvid Nelson, Curator and Archivist,
and
The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
https://physics.illinois.edu/history/...
Special Thanks to: Linda S. Stahnke, Archival Operations & Reference Specialist
And:
http://platohistory.org/about/ (by Brian Dear)
http://thinkofit.com/plato/dwplato.htm
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PLATO_(...)
Plato@50 (YouTube) a conference series, hosted by Computer Museum (Mountain View, CA)
http://www.Cyber1.org
http://edmentum.org
-----------------------------------
Professional Narration: David Melvin
Key Terms in the Presentation include:
Computer Based Education (CBE)
Computer Assisted Learning (CAL)
Computer Aided Instruction (CAI)
Professor Donald Bitzer
Touch Screen
Tutor language
Control Data Corporation
Click to visit our other Computer History videos:
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCOyJD0RHtF_77_oAf5tT1nQ/videos
A brief presentation highlighting early PLATO Computer Based Education systems. This presentation is an independent research project by Computer History Archives Project. For an in-depth look at PLATO’s fascinating history, we suggest the following resources.
The Charles Babbage Institute
http://www.cbi.umn.edu/iterations/van...
Special Thanks to: Arvid Nelson, Curator and Archivist,
and
The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
https://physics.illinois.edu/history/...
Special Thanks to: Linda S. Stahnke, Archival Operations & Reference Specialist
And:
http://platohistory.org/about/ (by Brian Dear)
http://thinkofit.com/plato/dwplato.htm
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PLATO_(...)
Plato@50 (YouTube) a conference series, hosted by Computer Museum (Mountain View, CA)
http://www.Cyber1.org
http://edmentum.org
-----------------------------------
Professional Narration: David Melvin
Key Terms in the Presentation include:
Computer Based Education (CBE)
Computer Assisted Learning (CAL)
Computer Aided Instruction (CAI)
Professor Donald Bitzer
Touch Screen
Tutor language
Control Data Corporation
Click to visit our other Computer History videos:
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCOyJD0RHtF_77_oAf5tT1nQ/videos
Control Data 3300
music by badtracking (https://badtracking.bandcamp.com/)
original video uploaded as "History of Computer Graphics (1972)" by VintageCG her...
Control Data 3300
music by badtracking (https://badtracking.bandcamp.com/)
original video uploaded as "History of Computer Graphics (1972)" by VintageCG here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NXkkr0REEPI
Control Data 3300
music by badtracking (https://badtracking.bandcamp.com/)
original video uploaded as "History of Computer Graphics (1972)" by VintageCG here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NXkkr0REEPI
The newest arrival at Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen's Living Computer Museum in Seattle is a big one — both literally and figuratively. Weighing more than 10,...
The newest arrival at Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen's Living Computer Museum in Seattle is a big one — both literally and figuratively. Weighing more than 10,000 pounds, the Control Data Corporation 6500 is part of a line of machines that were the first to be called "supercomputers." It was turned off in 1989 after two decades at Purdue University. Now, Allen's engineers in Seattle are preparing to bring it back to life. The restoration will take an estimated two years — a project so challenging that there's no guarantee of success.
The newest arrival at Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen's Living Computer Museum in Seattle is a big one — both literally and figuratively. Weighing more than 10,000 pounds, the Control Data Corporation 6500 is part of a line of machines that were the first to be called "supercomputers." It was turned off in 1989 after two decades at Purdue University. Now, Allen's engineers in Seattle are preparing to bring it back to life. The restoration will take an estimated two years — a project so challenging that there's no guarantee of success.
Provided to YouTube by The Orchard Enterprises
Control Data Corporation · Benfay
Hey, What's Wrong Baby!
℗ 2010 Everestrecords
Released on: 2010-09-03
Auto...
Provided to YouTube by The Orchard Enterprises
Control Data Corporation · Benfay
Hey, What's Wrong Baby!
℗ 2010 Everestrecords
Released on: 2010-09-03
Auto-generated by YouTube.
Provided to YouTube by The Orchard Enterprises
Control Data Corporation · Benfay
Hey, What's Wrong Baby!
℗ 2010 Everestrecords
Released on: 2010-09-03
Auto-generated by YouTube.
A unique 1966 film by CSIRO showing how computers can help with classification of data, utilizing a Control Data Corporation CDC 3600 Supercomputer. - Nicely filmed and narrated, it covers the whole cycle of data collection, formatting, input, verification, processing and output in a very comfortable, easy-to-follow scenario.
Brief and non-technical, it includes somewhat rare footage of a CDC 3600 in operation.
Peripherals shown including CDC tape drives, printers, plotter and an IBM model 56 punch card verifier. We hope you enjoy this great piece of computing history.
Our thanks to CSIRO (Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization for allowing us to reproduce this film.
https://www.csiro.au/
Scenes, Images and Peripherals by Time Index:
Opening Scenes: 00:22
Man using IBM 80 Column Punch Card Input Form 02:50
Data entry, IBM Punch Cards and IBM 056 Verifier 03:22
Punch card program decks and data cards 04:03
Computer Room, CDC 3600 console, tapes 04:39
CDC 3600 Operator at Control Console 05:03
High-Speed Card Reader 05:41
Computer Core Memory Unit 06:10
Magnetic Tape Unit close-up 06:13
CDC 3600 Arithmetic Unit CPU 06:29
Line Printer and Output 06:40
CDC 3293 Plotter (Calcomp 565) 07:49
Appendix and More Info Slides 10:25
Recommended Resources: --
Control Data Systems, Inc. History
http://www.fundinguniverse.com/company-histories/control-data-systems-inc-history/
Chronology of Control Data Corporation (at Charles Babbage Institute)
http://www.cbi.umn.edu/resources/mncomphist-c.html#cdc
VIDEOS:
Control Data Corporation CDC 6600
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rCYVcL8Ud1A&t=8s
1967 - CDC 6600 - Control Data Corporation (brief excerpt) mainframe Naval Weather
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mLuh_O4mYbA
PLATO Computer Systems - computer aided learning - CAL CAI CBT education
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tTmWcGhlXqA
This video describes the relationship between Westinghouse Electric Corporation and Control Data Corporation. It focuses on the Network Operating System: Virtual Environment (NOS/VE). This video was taped at the Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center located at the Westinghouse Energy Center in Monroeville PA. The video features Jim Kasdorf, former Westinghouse manager and present director at the Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center.
A brief presentation highlighting early PLATO Computer Based Education systems. This presentation is an independent research project by Computer History Archives Project. For an in-depth look at PLATO’s fascinating history, we suggest the following resources.
The Charles Babbage Institute
http://www.cbi.umn.edu/iterations/van...
Special Thanks to: Arvid Nelson, Curator and Archivist,
and
The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
https://physics.illinois.edu/history/...
Special Thanks to: Linda S. Stahnke, Archival Operations & Reference Specialist
And:
http://platohistory.org/about/ (by Brian Dear)
http://thinkofit.com/plato/dwplato.htm
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PLATO_(...)
Plato@50 (YouTube) a conference series, hosted by Computer Museum (Mountain View, CA)
http://www.Cyber1.org
http://edmentum.org
-----------------------------------
Professional Narration: David Melvin
Key Terms in the Presentation include:
Computer Based Education (CBE)
Computer Assisted Learning (CAL)
Computer Aided Instruction (CAI)
Professor Donald Bitzer
Touch Screen
Tutor language
Control Data Corporation
Click to visit our other Computer History videos:
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCOyJD0RHtF_77_oAf5tT1nQ/videos
Control Data 3300
music by badtracking (https://badtracking.bandcamp.com/)
original video uploaded as "History of Computer Graphics (1972)" by VintageCG here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NXkkr0REEPI
The newest arrival at Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen's Living Computer Museum in Seattle is a big one — both literally and figuratively. Weighing more than 10,000 pounds, the Control Data Corporation 6500 is part of a line of machines that were the first to be called "supercomputers." It was turned off in 1989 after two decades at Purdue University. Now, Allen's engineers in Seattle are preparing to bring it back to life. The restoration will take an estimated two years — a project so challenging that there's no guarantee of success.
Provided to YouTube by The Orchard Enterprises
Control Data Corporation · Benfay
Hey, What's Wrong Baby!
℗ 2010 Everestrecords
Released on: 2010-09-03
Auto-generated by YouTube.
Control Data Corporation (CDC) was a supercomputer firm. CDC was one of the nine major United States computer companies through most of the 1960s; the others were IBM, Burroughs Corporation, DEC, NCR, General Electric, Honeywell, RCA, and UNIVAC. CDC was well-known and highly regarded throughout the industry at the time. For most of the 1960s, Seymour Cray worked at CDC and developed a series of machines that were the fastest computers in the world by far, until Cray left the company to found Cray Research (CRI) in the 1970s. After several years of losses in the early 1980s, in 1988 CDC started to leave the computer manufacturing business and sell the related parts of the company, a process that was completed in 1992 with the creation of Control Data Systems, Inc. The remaining businesses of CDC currently operate as Ceridian.
Background and origins: World War II–1957
During World War II the U.S. Navy had built up a team of engineers to build codebreaking machinery for both Japanese and German electro-mechanical ciphers. A number of these were produced by a team dedicated to the task working in the Washington, D.C., area. With the post-war wind-down of military spending, the Navy grew increasingly worried that this team would break up and scatter into various companies, and it started looking for ways to covertly keep the team together.