Re: Chipsandcheese article on the CDC6600

On Sun, 21 Jul 2024 22:21:41 +0000, MitchAlsup1 wrote:

IBM CEO said something to the effect:: How can a team of 24 people,
including the janitor, beat IBM ??

From Watson’s memo:

    Last week Control Data had a press conference during which they
    officially announced their 6600 system. I understand that in the
    laboratory developing this system there are only 34 people,
    including the janitor. Of these, 14 are engineers and 4 are
    programmers, and only one person has a Ph.D., a relatively junior
    programmer. Contrasting this modest effort with our own vast
    development activities, I fail to understand why we have lost our
    industry leadership position by letting someone else offer the
    world’s most powerful computer.

as quoted in Charles J Murray’s 1997 book “The Supermen”, page 93.
Good description of the history of CDC and Cray Research/Cray
Computer. Notwithstanding the plural in its title, it primarily
focuses on Seymour Cray, and is not so complimentary about the work of
some others, notably Steve Chen.