Editing Scientific Data Systems (section)

{{Short description|American computer company}}
{{Infobox company
| name = Scientific Data Systems
| logo = Scientific Data Systems logo.svg
| logo_caption = Logo of the company during most of the 1970s
| type = <!-- Public or Private -->
| industry = Computers
| founded = {{Start date and age|1961}} in [[Santa Monica, California]]
| founders = {{ubl|[[Max Palevsky]]|Robert Beck}}
| defunct = {{ubl|1975|{{End date|1984}} (UK division)}}
| successor = Xerox Data Systems
| num_employees = 
| num_employees_year = <!-- Year of num_employees data (if known) -->
}}
'''Scientific Data Systems''' ('''SDS'''), was an American [[computer company]] founded in September 1961 by [[Max Palevsky]], [[Arthur Rock]] and Robert Beck, veterans of [[Packard Bell Corporation]] and [[Bendix Corporation|Bendix]], along with eleven other computer scientists. SDS was the first to employ [[silicon transistor]]s, and was an early adopter of [[integrated circuit]]s in computer design. The company concentrated on larger scientific workload focused machines and sold many machines to [[NASA]] during the [[Space Race]]. Most machines were both fast and relatively low-priced. The company was sold to [[Xerox]] in 1969, but dwindling sales due to the [[oil crisis of 1973–74]] caused Xerox to close the division in 1975 at a loss of hundreds of millions of dollars. During the Xerox years the company was officially '''Xerox Data Systems''' ('''XDS'''), whose machines were the [[Xerox 500 series]].