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"CONTROL DATA'S FOUR-PART OPERATIONAL STRATEGY"
REMARKS BY
ROBERT M. PRICE. JR.
PRESIDENT. CONTROL DATA SYSTEMS.
SERVICES & MARKETING
TO
COMPUTER TRADE PRESS BRIEFING
AT
THE DECATHLON CLUB
BLOOMINGTON. MINNESOTA
TUESDAY EVENING. SEPTEMBER 14. 1976
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GOOD EVENING. I APPRECIATE THIS OPPORTUNITY TO PROVIDE YOU A
BIT OF BACKGROUND TO SET THE STAGE FOR TOMORROW'S PRESS BRIEFING.
SEEING THIS BROAD COLLECTION OF NEWSPEOPLE REPRESENTING PUBLICA
TIONS FROM COAST-TO-COAST GIVES ME AN OPPORTUNITY TO LET YOU IN ON A
BIT OF LITTLE-KNOWN JOURNALISTIC HISTORY.
IT RELATES TO THE FIRST TIME THAT CONTROL DATA. AS A CORPORATE
NAME. EVER APPEARED IN PRINT. IT WAS NOT IN THE WALL STREET
JMNAL...IT WAS NOT IN ELECTRONIC NEWS...NOR WAS IT IN BUSINESS
WEEK...NOT EVEN IN FORBES, WHICH HAS A HABIT OF PORTRAYING OUR
COMPANY IN RATHER STRANGE WAYS.
THE FIRST PUBLIC MENTION APPEARED ON - OF ALL PLACES - THE
SPORTS PAGE...IN A QUESTION POSED ON JULY 30. 1957. BY A MINNEAPOLIS
SPORTS COLUMNIST WITH A PENCHANT FOR DROPPING BUSINESS TIDBITS
ONTO THE SPORTS PAGE.
HIS NAME WAS. AND IS. SIDNEY HARTMAN...HIS COLUMN WAS "HARTMAN'S
ROUNDUP." HERE'S THE TEXT OF THE ONE SENTENCE QUESTION WHICH
HE ASKED HIS READERS:
"HAVE SEVERAL FORMER UNIVAC PEOPLE RESIGNED FROM THE ST. PAUL
SPERRY-RAND BRANCH TO FORM A FIRM CALLED CONTROL DATA THAT WILL
DEAL IN ELECTRONIC RESEARCH?"
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I TELL THIS STORY FOR A SPECIFIC REASON OTHER THAN JUST STAR. IT
IS AN EXCELLENT EXAMPLE OF CONTROL DATA'S FOUR-PART OPERATIONAL
STRATEGY WHICH CONTINUES TO UNFOLD.
I KNOW THAT THERE HAVE BEEN THOSE WHO WERE SKEPTICAL AS TO
WHETHER THERE IS REALLY ANY CENTRAL STRATEGY BEHIND THE SOME
WHAT FRENETIC-APPEARING GROWTH WHICH HAS OCCURRED DURING THE 19
YEARS OR SO SINCE SID HARTMAN SET US IN MOTION.
IN FACT, SOMEONE ONCE REFERRED TO US AS THE CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS
COMPANY. PERHAPS YOU KNOW THE STORY.
CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS STARTED OUT ON A VOYAGE...NOT KNOWING EXACTLY
WHERE HE WAS GOING. WHEN HE GOT THERE, HE DIDN'T KNOW WHERE HE
WAS. AND WHEN HE RETURNED, HE DIDN'T KNOW WHERE HE'D BEEN.
I'M NOT AS OLD AS CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS...OR EVEN BILL MORRIS...
BUT I'VE BEEN AROUND CONTROL DATA A LONG TIME AND THE OVERALL
THRUST WHICH WE'VE BEEN FOLLOWING FOR THE LAST % YEARS OR SO ISREALLY RATHER STRAIGHT FORWARD...CONSISTENT...AND, I THINK, EASY
TO UNDERSTAND.
THIS STRATEGY INVOLVES FOUR ELEMENTS. ONE OF THEM REALLY PROVIDES
THE UNBRELLA - THE BASIC CONCEPT WHICH GUIDES AND TIES TOGETHER
THE OTHER THREE SUPPORTING CONCEPTS. I'LL START WITH THESE
SUPPORTING STRATEGIES.
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FIRST THERE ARE LARGE-SCALE COMPUTERS AND PERIPHERAL PRODUCTS.
THIS IS THE HARDWARE ELEMENT.
CONTROL DATA IS THE UNQUESTIONED LEADER IN THE LARGE-SCALE SEGMENT
OF THE COMPUTER BUSINESS. AND IT HAS BEEN FOR MANY YEARS.
LET ME GIVE YOU SOME INSIGHT INTO THE EVOLUTION OF OUR COMPUTER
CAPABILITIES. IN 1955, AN EIGHT-HOUR WEATHER FORECAST COULD
BE PRODUCED ON A COMPUTER...AFTER CALCULATING FOR MME HOURS!
THE RESULT WAS USUALLY 100% ACCURATE. THE REASON IS OBVIOUS.
BY THE TIME THE PREDICTION WAS CALCULATED AND GIVEN TO THE
METEOROLOGIST, ACTUAL WEATHER BEING PREDICTED WAS ALREADY HISTORY.
THIS SIMPLE WflSATON JUSTIFIED USING THE LARGEST AND MOST
POWERFUL SYSTEM OF THE TIME. IN FACT, IF YOU RECALL, CONTROL DATA'S
FIRST CUSTOMER BACK JIN 1960 WAS FLEET NUMERIC WEATHER CENTER IN
MONTEREY, CALIFORNIA. THIS ORGANIZATION USED THAT 1604 COMPUTER
IN ITS PIONEERING EFFORTS TO IMPROVE WEATHER FORECASTING.
TODAY, CONTROL DATA CONTINUES TO OFFER THE MOST POWERFUL SYSTEMS
COMMERCIALLY AVAILABLE ~ OUR STAR. STAR IS MORE THAN 100 TIMES
AS POWERFUL AS THAT ORIGINAL 1604 COMPUTER WHICH WE SOLD TO FLEET
NUMERIC WEATHER CENTER.
THE TOTAL STAR SYSTEM INVOLVES A CONCEPT POPULARLY KNOWN AS
"DISTRIBUTED PROCESSING." AT CONTROL DATA THIS CONNOTES "THE
DELEGATION OF A TASK TO AN APPROPRIATE RESOURCE." I EMPHASIZE
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ENGINEER. A TEAM OF CONTROL DATA PROGRAMMING CONSULTANTS HAS
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