Computer Research Corporation

<p>The Computer Research Corporation (CRC) was an early developer of <a href="/facts/Minicomputer/g8hvpQxe">minicomputers</a>. It was founded on July 16, 1950.
</p><p>The founding owners of CRC were <a href="/facts/Floyd_Steele/vJeuDcuJ">Floyd Steele</a>, Donald Eckdahl, Hrant (Harold) Sarkinssian, Richard Sprague, and <a href="/facts/Irving_S._Reed/tuxmsa6G">Irving S. Reed</a>. With the exception of Reed, all members of the CRC had been on the design team for the <a href="/facts/MADDIDA/td6IfjIs">MADDIDA</a>, a special-purpose digital computer developed from 1946 to 1949 for <a href="/facts/Northrop_Corporation/X7DPKcx1">Northrop</a>. Realizing that a problem-oriented language (POL) could be used to make a general-purpose computer function as a <a href="/facts/Differential_analyzer/lgA1m3VS">differential analyzer</a>, the MADDIDA design team left Northrup in 1950 to focus on designing general-purpose computers, leading to them to found the CRC. After developing the Cadac, an early minicomputer, the CRC was sold to <a href="/facts/NCR_Corporation/1vfttHoo">National Cash Register (NCR)</a> in February 1953, launching NCR into the digital computing business.
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Computer Research Corporation