The cdc 1700 was a 16bit word minicomputer, manufactured by the control data corporation with deliveries beginning in may, 1966. It was one of the first machines to use a vector processor to improve performance on appropriate scientific applications. A cutdown 24bit version, designated the cdc 924, was shortly thereafter produced, and delivered to nasa. The original 1700 was constructed using aircooled cdc 6600like cordwood logic modules and core memory, although later models used different technology. The cdc star100 is a vector supercomputer that was designed, manufactured, and marketed by control data corporation cdc. Buildingblock modularity, expansion capabilities,and standard software packages make the 1700 computer system a. The 1604 is known as one of the first commercially successful transistorized computers. The cdc 1604 was a 48bit computer designed and manufactured by seymour cray and his team at the control data corporation. Beehive international bendix corporation broderbund software bryant computer products. Aml m78001700 enterprise mobile computer, wifi 80211abgn, ex25 nearfar imager. H1700 digital io to computer interfaces rs232 or rs. Control data corporation cdc selling the computer revolution. Cdc was one of the nine major united states computer companies through most of the 1960s. The 1700 used ones complement arithmetic and an asciibased character set, and supported memory write protection on an individual word basis.
User programs are protected from each other by use of base address and length. Control data corporation collection historical timeline. It was also the first supercomputer to use integrated circuits and. Control data corporation cdc was a mainframe and supercomputer firm. Computer programmingcomputer sciencemusic software image sitesaesthetic imagesmy vibeher musicamerican womenplaying guitar. Among these was the era atlas, an early military stored program computer, the. The role of the special systems division was to aid control data corporation. The cdc 1700 was a 16bit word minicomputer, manufactured by the control data corporation with deliveries beginning in may 1966. Software means any software of belden running on a computer e. Hardware, software, and service prices are unbundled. Control data 1700 computer system computing history. Interface cables and charging cradle sold separately.
Control data corporation was incorporated in minnesota, july 8, 1957, by fremont fletcher, abbot l. The h1700 series provides easy access to digital input and output signals through an rs232 or rs485 communications link. For most of the 1960s, seymour cray worked at cdc and developed a series of. Early cdc board of directors members included president william c. Please quote this reference id in any communication with the centre for computing history. The first foreign control data institute established in frankfurt. Parenting styles run the gamut and so do the features in parental control and monitoring utilities. Legend has it that the 1604 designation was chosen by adding cdcs first street address to crays former project, the eraunivac 1103.