Re:The Benefits of Solitude
by pklausler on Friday April 21, 2017 @05:30PM
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It's true that hardware engineering and manufacturing were in Chippewa Falls, Wisconsin, while the corporate HQ and software people were various suburbs of Minneapolis, Minnesota (first Bloomington, then Mendota Heights and downtown Minneapolis, then Eagan, then back to Mendota Heights, &c...). But that's mostly because Control Data had set Seymour up with a lab in Chippewa Falls, and he just stayed in place in '72 when he quit.
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Re:The Benefits of Solitude
by projectileboy on Friday April 21, 2017 @06:46PM
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True, but that wasn't accidental. Cray helped start Control Data, and he placed the lab in Chippewa Falls in order to do R&D away from nuisances.