Control Data Corporation

<p>Control Data Corporation (CDC) was a <a href="/facts/Mainframe/nrBR6rWa">mainframe</a> and <a href="/facts/Supercomputer/HT9NwGAN">supercomputer</a> company that in the 1960s was one of the nine major U.S. <a href="/facts/Computer/SQe1aK05">computer</a> companies, which group included <a href="/facts/IBM/QszA7nwd">IBM</a>, the <a href="/facts/Burroughs_Corporation/NAEwIvpU">Burroughs Corporation</a>, and the <a href="/facts/Digital_Equipment_Corporation/ztxs6keA">Digital Equipment Corporation</a> (DEC), the <a href="/facts/NCR_Corporation/1vfttHoo">NCR Corporation</a> (NCR), <a href="/facts/General_Electric/bBm5CzVY">General Electric</a>, <a href="/facts/Honeywell/qjkujlwJ">Honeywell</a>, <a href="/facts/RCA/NWyjNN6R">RCA</a>, and <a href="/facts/UNIVAC/FhJlhtva">UNIVAC</a>. For most of the 1960s, the strength of CDC was the work of the electrical engineer <a href="/facts/Seymour_Cray/uDpXUsXc">Seymour Cray</a> who developed a series of fast computers, then considered the fastest computing machines in the world; in the 1970s, Cray left the Control Data Corporation and founded <a href="/facts/Cray_Research/coAlupuy">Cray Research</a> (CRI) to design and make supercomputers. In 1988, after much financial loss, the Control Data Corporation began withdrawing from making computers and sold the affiliated companies of CDC; in 1992, CDC established Control Data Systems, Inc. The remaining affiliate companies of CDC currently do business as the software company <a href="/facts/Dayforce/jXswfDMg">Dayforce</a>.
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Control Data Corporation