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,: <br />COMPUTING <br />. . . . . . , . . ���w <br />i � ry: <br />.. . . . . _ -:> <br />�i <br />CO-OP serves to facilitate the exchange of programmin� information and <br />routinea developed by the Company and its comp�uter customers. <br />During the year, the Company announced a"Satellite Computer Sys- <br />tem" which permits ane or more of its desk-size 160 Computers tv com- <br />municate directly with t��he 1604's magnetic core memory and arithmetic <br />unit, and all of the 1604'y peripheral equipment; this concept is a"first" <br />in the industry. <br />CENTE� <br />ELECT�ONI� <br />ro�ia Cor�gaE�r <br />�� :DA�'A <br />A Computing Center has been established �,t 601 Park Avenue, Min- <br />ne�polis, Minnesota. Thig Computing Center—�vith ContraI Data's 1604 <br />Computer—h�s one Qf the largest computing capAcities available at any <br />commercial �omputing center in the iJnited States. It prorrides computing <br />time to the Company's engineering staff for their �ngineering design effor� <br />and also far procesaing the Cornpany's accounting dAta. Comp�ting Center <br />time is provided to cuetomers for perfecting planned computear programg <br />prior ta Controi Data's �ielivery of tlieir computers. Cvmputing titne also <br />ia �nid on a`°service bure�u" basia to universities, sci�ntific and businesa <br />or�aniz��ion�. <br />��MPUT�R <br />The desk-�ize solid state digit�l g��r�rml purpose c�arn�nuter ia the smallw <br />�e�t co�nputer in Control Data's line but it is th� hi�hest-perforrn�nce com- <br />pu�r in it� �ompetiti�re price cl�s�. It ia u�efuD a� an indeper�dent computer <br />in the �elds oP en�ineering and scienti�c cntculations, dat� proceasing, d�ata <br />cez�ver�ipn� industri�l cont�al, communicniion syatems, an� business �lu� <br />sy�tem�. �odel 160's ma� alsa be used as input�-output d�ta proceasara <br />�or th� X60� Comgat�r, and in ih� s�teliate sy�tean conc�pt mentivned a�ove. <br />T'h��� 14��d�e1 160's have been d�Iivered �o cus�a�ners. <br />Cqll�C�`Q� <br />:'� <br />x►� I�ebruary, 19fi0, the Comp�ny announced �nother new p�adu�t to <br />�e marl�eted in the c�ar►mexcial �ar��. The Model 18Q Data Cvileator has <br />�r+e�n s��ai�ned to �un�tion u�ith �ny af th� standa�d �lect�r�r�i� di�Ital ��t►.- : <br />puter� or t,�bul�tin� sya�ems na� or� th� m�rke�. :, .` <br />;,:,., <br />Ea�h 1�4 I?Ata Callector is �n ind�pendent unit� for collect3ng prod�ac� <br />�i�n �dat� �� the point g�ure� of �ri�in �nd aut�om�Cic,�lly recurd�ng it ���c�► _ <br />�ut�ahed pa�er t�pe for ��ter cainputer �rn�essing o� p�ryroIl� wo�rl�-in� <br />�roceas invant�o�, fa�c�ary* praduc�ion, equipment load�ng, �rrd pradc��tion- <br />schedul'an� infarm�tion. _ <br />.�► self-con�ai��d unit �vi�h a�un�h�d ��rd �re�ader, �lock, and �e� maa�naI := ,� <br />dial� f�r vari�bie d��a in�a�t �nd pa�er t�pa putach �utput, thi� unit h�� <br />the adv�tag� of requiring no i�asta�latian �expenge. <br />ji.. <br />� � � � '.�'4�. <br />� �v <br />. . . . . . . 4: ::{ <br />� . .. . � .. . ,. . , f .;� '.� <br />� . ` .. � . S :. � t <br />. '� "� : : �.. _.. , : �, , ., ., ; ;::.� : , � . i . �, '. - i. �; �.�� . . ., , , . . lct4 � ..a�erL7.�ird'a�t� <br />.:. . . . � . ... . . . . . . . . .. . . � r <br />