3 Jan
2022
3 Jan
'22
11:14 p.m.
On 1/3/22 6:49 PM, Grant Taylor via cctalk wrote:
On 1/3/22 4:01 PM, Chuck Guzis via cctalk wrote:
Interesting series of tweets.
I'm surprised by the tweet about Seymour Cray founding Control Data
Corporation.? I know that Cray /worked/ for CDC, and left to found Cray
Research, but I was not aware that Seymour had anything to do with
founding CDC.
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.
--Chuck