Computer Control Company, Inc. (1953–1966), informally known as 3C, was a pioneering minicomputer company known for its DDP-series (Digital Data Processor) computers, notably:[a][1]
- DDP-24 24-bit (1963)
- DDP-224 24-bit (1965)[2]
- DDP-116 16-bit (1965)[3]
- DDP-124 24-bit (1966)[2] using monolithic ICs[4]
It was founded in 1953 by Dr. Louis Fein, the physicist who had earlier designed the Raytheon RAYDAC computer.[5]
The company moved to Framingham, Massachusetts, in 1959. Prior to the introduction of the DDP-series it developed a series of digital logical modules, initially based on vacuum tubes.
In 1966, it was sold to Honeywell, Inc. As the Computer Controls division of Honeywell, it introduced further DDP-series computers, and was a $100,000,000 business until 1970 when Honeywell purchased GE's computer division and discontinued development of the DDP line.[6]
In a 1970 essay, Murray Bookchin used the DDP-124 as his example of computer progress:
Notes
- ↑ One of the developers of the DDP-124, William Poduska, who later on became one of the founders of Prime Computer, said in a 2002 interview that the 124 came after the 224, which came after the 24.
References
- ↑ "DDP-124 Microcircuit General Purpose Digital Computer" (PDF). Confirms the 24, 224, 124 sequence
- 1 2 Adams Report 1967, PDF
- ↑ Zhou, Yong (1968). The European Computer Users Handbook 1968/69. Computer Data Series. Computer Consultants Limited (Sixth ed.). Pergamon Press. p. 111.20. ISBN 9781483146690. LCCN 63-25287.
- ↑ "DDP-24 Announced by Computer Controls". Archive.org. Computers and Automation. July 1965. Retrieved April 1, 2019.
- ↑ Background, Vol. 7, No. 2 (Aug., 1963), pp. 109–110; published by: Blackwell Publishing on behalf of The International Studies Association
- ↑ Adrian Wise. "Computer Control Company". Adrian Wise. Retrieved 2008-06-09.
- ↑ Bookchin, Murray, (1970), "Toward a Liberatory Technology," in Post-Scarcity Anarchism, AK Press, 2004, ISBN 1-904859-06-2; pp. 57–8
External links
- Oral history interview with Louis Fein at Charles Babbage Institute, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis. Fein discusses establishing computer science as an academic discipline at Stanford Research Institute (SRI) as well as contacts with the University of California—Berkeley, the University of North Carolina, Purdue, International Federation for Information Processing and other institutions.
- The 3C Legacy Project
- Computer Control Company Reunion Website at the Wayback Machine (archived November 23, 2021)
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