Control Data Corporation, “Little Character” prototype
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- Details
- Description
- Date Introduced
- 1958
- Photographer
- Richards, Mark
- Dimensions
- overall: 68 in x 50 in x 21 in
- Manufacturer
- Control Data Corporation (CDC)
- Credit Line
- Gift of Control Data Corporation
- Copyright Owner
- © Mark Richards
- Location
- United States
- Keywords
- Cold War; CDC 1604 (Computer); Cray, Seymour
- Object ID
- X437.84
- Memory Type
- Core
- Memory Size
- 64 Words
- Memory Width
- 6-bit
The fledgling CDC wasn’t sure what products to make; they even considered electronic cash registers. When Seymour Cray joined, he built this prototype to show that they could craft reliable, high-performance computers using only a few kinds of transistorized circuit boards.
