Editing Control Data Corporation (section)

{{short description|Defunct supercomputer firm}}
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'''Control Data Corporation''' ('''CDC''') was a [[mainframe]] and [[supercomputer]] company that in the 1960s was one of the nine major U.S. [[computer]] companies, which group included [[IBM]], the [[Burroughs Corporation]], and the [[Digital Equipment Corporation]] (DEC), the [[NCR Corporation]] (NCR), [[General Electric]], [[Honeywell]], [[RCA]], and [[UNIVAC]]. For most of the 1960s, the strength of CDC was the work of the electrical engineer [[Seymour Cray]] who developed a series of fast computers, then considered the fastest computing machines in the world; in the 1970s, Cray left the Control Data Corporation and founded [[Cray Research]] (CRI) to design and make supercomputers. In 1988, after much financial loss, the Control Data Corporation began withdrawing from making computers and sold the affiliated companies of CDC; in 1992, CDC established '''Control Data Systems, Inc.''' The remaining affiliate companies of CDC currently do business as the software company [[Dayforce]].