Control Data Institute
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Control Data Institute was an international technical vocational school created by the American Control Data Corporation
in the mid-1960s.
Control Data Corporation
Control Data Corporation was a supercomputer firm. For most of the 1960s, it built the fastest computers in the world by far, only losing that crown in the 1970s after Seymour Cray left the company to found Cray Research, Inc....
in the mid-1960s.
Historical timeline
- 1965 Control Data CorporationControl Data CorporationControl Data Corporation was a supercomputer firm. For most of the 1960s, it built the fastest computers in the world by far, only losing that crown in the 1970s after Seymour Cray left the company to found Cray Research, Inc....
established Control Data Institutes in the United StatesUnited StatesThe United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...
. - 1967 The first foreign Institute was established in FrankfurtFrankfurtFrankfurt am Main , commonly known simply as Frankfurt, is the largest city in the German state of Hesse and the fifth-largest city in Germany, with a 2010 population of 688,249. The urban area had an estimated population of 2,300,000 in 2010...
. - 1976 The PLATO computer-based education system was announced.
- 1977 PLATO Systems were implemented at all United States Institutes.
- 1978 Institutes and learning centers numbered sixty-nine worldwide.
- 1989 Institutes in the United States were detached from Control Data CorporationControl Data CorporationControl Data Corporation was a supercomputer firm. For most of the 1960s, it built the fastest computers in the world by far, only losing that crown in the 1970s after Seymour Cray left the company to found Cray Research, Inc....
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