Thorndyke, Lloyd oral history | Computer History Museum

Type

Text

Title

Thorndyke, Lloyd oral history

Contributor

Burniece, Thomas, Interviewer

Spicer, Dag, Interviewer

Thorndyke, Lloyd, Interviewee

Publisher

Computer History Museum

Date

2010-08-13

Place of Publication

Cisco Video Conferencing System, Minneapolis, Minnesota (Lloyd Thorndyke) and Cisco Video Conferencing System, San Jose, California (Tom Burniece and Dag Spicer)

Extent

39 p.

Description

This oral history interview focuses on Lloyd Thorndyke’s career at Control Data Corporation, starting in 1960 as one of the engineering leaders who put them in the peripheral business and ending with spinning the super-computing division out of CDC as ETA in the 1980’s. His memory is exceptionally sharp on people, dates, and details, plus his wit and frankness keep it really interesting.

Subject

Thorndyke, Lloyd; Storage history; Control Data Corporation (CDC); UNIVAC; ETA Systems; drums; Disk Drives; Tape drive; Cray, Seymour; CDC 6600; CDC 606; CDC 808; CDC 852; CDC SMD; Cyber 205; ETA-10; Vacca, Tony

Collection Title

Oral histories online

Accession Number

102743024

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