On 1/3/22 6:49 PM, Grant Taylor via cctalk wrote: > On 1/3/22 4:01 PM, Chuck Guzis via cctalk wrote: >> https://twitter.com/DonaldM38768041/status/1215804561333473280/photo/2 > > 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