4 Jan
2022
4 Jan
'22
7:40 a.m.
On 1/4/22 12:14 AM, Chuck Guzis via cctalk wrote:
Seymour Cray, along with Bill Norris and Jim Thornton
and others
left Remington Rand/UNIVAC after Rand bought the near-bankrupt ERA.
Apparently, the work environment at Rand was felt to be stifling.
Norris had all of the Navy connections and was a great marketer,
so bringing some of Rand's engineering talent along was a natural.
Interesting.
I guess I thought that since Seymour left CDC to form Cray Research,
that meant that he was more of an employee at CDC and had less influence
on how it operated as a company. I would have assumed that someone that
was a founder would have had more influence and tried to improve things
before splitting off and forming yet another new company.
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Grant. . . .
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