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IBM was unable to finish its " 6600 killer ," and CDC eventually won the suit, and was awarded $ 600 million in damages.
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The 8600 design effort was eventually cancelled in 1974, and Control Data moved on to the CDC STAR-100 series instead.
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Yet even Cray eventually succumbed to the problem during the CDC 8600 project, which eventually led to him leaving Control Data.
In 1971 he set up a new division within CDC to develop PLATO " courseware ", and eventually many of CDC's own initial training and technical manuals ran on it.
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New versions of the basic 1604 architecture were rebuilt into the CDC 3000 series, which sold through the early and mid-1960s.
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After that, CDC sold other assets such as VTC ( a chip maker that specialized in mass-storage circuitry and was closely linked with MPI ), as well as non-computer-related assets like Ticketron.
In 1988 or 1989 this division was renamed Empros and was later sold to Siemens as CDC broke apart.
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The prevalence of having been offered, sold, or given an illegal drug on school property ranged from 15. 5 % to 38. 8 % across state CDC surveys ( median: 26. 1 %) and from 20. 3 % to 40. 0 % across local surveys ( median: 29. 4 %).
Acceptance at installation sites took years while the bugs were worked out, and while the machine generally sold well enough given its " high end " niche, it is unlikely the machine generated any sort of real profits for CDC.
CDC later sold off their CYBIS business to University Online, which was a descendant of IMSATT.
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CDC and PLATO
CDC was also attempting to diversify its revenue from hardware into services and this included its promotion of the PLATO ( computer system ) computer-aided learning system, which ran on Cyber hardware and incorporated many early computer interface innovations including bit-mapped touchscreen terminals.
Another CDC project that Norris championed was the PLATO system, an online teaching and instruction system developed at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
In 1974 they reached an agreement with CDC to allow CDC to sell PLATO in exchange for free machines on which to run it.
CDC, where Allen was Director of Advanced Instructional Systems R & D, invested heavily in the development of an expansive library of interactive " courseware " to run on the PLATO system.
The PLATO project was assumed by the Control Data Corporation ( CDC ), who built the machines with which PLATO operated at the University.
CDC President William Norris planned to make PLATO a force in the computer world ; the last production PLATO system was shut down in 2006 ( coincidentally, just a month after Norris died ), yet it established key on-line concepts: forums, message boards, online testing, e-mail, chat rooms, picture languages, instant messaging, remote screen sharing, and multi-player games.
Built on a CDC 1604, given to them by William Norris, PLATO III could simultaneously run up to 20 lessons, and was used by a local facilities in Champaign-Urbana that could enter the system with their custom terminals.
By 1975 the PLATO System served almost 150 locations from a donated CDC Cyber 73, including not only the users of the PLATO III system, but a number of grammar schools, high schools, colleges and universities, and military installations.
In 1974 PLATO was running on in-house machines at CDC headquarters in Minneapolis, and in 1976 they purchased the commercial rights in exchange for a new CDC Cyber machine.
CDC announced the acquisition soon after, claiming that by 1985 50 % of the company's income would be related to PLATO services.
Through the 1970s CDC tirelessly promoted PLATO, both as a commercial tool and one for re-training unemployed workers in new fields.
CDC even went as far as to place PLATO terminals in some shareholder's houses, to demonstrate the concept of the system.
An attempt to mass-market the PLATO system was introduced in 1980 as Micro-PLATO, which ran the basic TUTOR system on a CDC " Viking-721 " terminal and various home computers.
Norris continued to praise PLATO, announcing that it would be only a few years before it represented a major source of income for CDC as late as 1984.
During the period when CDC was marketing PLATO, the system began to be used internationally.
The South African subsidiary of CDC invested heavily in the development of an entire secondary school curriculum ( SASSC ) on PLATO, but unfortunately as the curriculum was nearing the final stages of completion, CDC began to falter in South Africa — partly because of financial problems back home, partly because of growing opposition in the United States to doing business in South Africa, and partly due to the rapidly evolving microcomputer, a paradigm shift that CDC failed to recognize.
In September 2006 the Federal Aviation Administration retired its PLATO system, the last system that ran the PLATO software system on a CDC Cyber mainframe, from active duty.

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And although the disease was declared eradicated, some pus samples still remain in laboratories in Centers for Disease Control and Prevention ( CDC ) in Atlanta, Georgia in the United States and State Research Center of Virology and Biotechnology VECTOR in Koltsovo, Novosibirsk Oblast, Russia.
These were marketed by CDC as the " Swift " series, and were some of the first high-performance 3. 5-inch drives on the market at their introduction in 1987.
* A German collection of CDC, Cray and other large computer systems, some of them in operation
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Primarily aimed at large office applications instead of the traditional supercomputer tasks, some of the Cyber machines nevertheless included basic vector instructions for added performance in " traditional " CDC roles.
In the late 1970s, CDC addressed some of these issues with the Cyber 203.
In addition, some more severe but non-neuroinvasive cases are not reported to the CDC.
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The first version ran on the Countess, but it was later ported to the CDC 1604 and to other computers and received some notice in University circles.
However CDC charged $ 50 an hour for access to their data center, in order to recoup some of their development costs, making it considerably more expensive than a human on a per-student basis.
* Ógra Comhairle Dáil Ceantair ( Ógra CDC ): The Ógra CDC covers the area of the Dáil constituency as set out by the Constituencies Commission, or in some cases where a constituency crosses a County border ; it covers the area of that County.
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