The rise of Control Data and how it inspired an era of innovation and investment in the Upper Midwest
by
Donald M. Hall
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2014
During the 1960s, an upstart Minnesota company, Control Data, made an enormous impact on the computer industry with the help of a handful of engineers and executives led by William Norris and Seymour Cray. The rise of Control Data from a company selling stock at $1 a share to a multi-national firm manufacturing...