Control Data Corporation Records

Artifacts, circa 1960-1989

CBI 80

Series 2

Collection Size: 5 cubic feet (6 boxes)

Creator: Control Data Corporation

Prepared by: Kate Flanagan, August 2004; Karen Spilman May 2006.

Acquisition: The majority of items were given to the Charles Babbage Institute by Ceridian Corporation in 1991.

Access: Access to the collection is unrestricted.

Copyright: The Charles Babbage Institute holds the copyright to all materials in the collection, except for items covered by a prior copyright (such as publishedmaterials). Researchers may quote from the collection under the fair use provisions of the copyright law (Title 17, U.S. Code).

Preferred Citation: Control Data Corporation Records, Artifacts (CBI 80), Charles Babbage Institute, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis.

Scope and Content Note

This series contains a variety of company artifacts, from computer components to promotional buttons to documents encased in acrylic blocks.

Arrangement of the Collection

Artifacts are arranged first by computer model number, if applicable, then alphabetically by type or specific name of the component or item.

Index Terms

Control Data Corporation

Box and Folder List

• 160A Paper Tape: OSAS-A (Box 3)
• 1604 component, rectangular components with aluminum tracings, O1A, circa 1960 (CBI Artifacts Box 1)
• 1604 component, rectangular components with aluminum tracings, 11A, circa 1960 (CBI Artifacts Box 1)
• 1604 component, rectangular components with aluminum tracings, 12, circa 1960 (CBI Artifacts Box 1)
• 1604 component, rectangular components with aluminum tracings, 62, circa 1960 (CBI Artifacts Box 1)
• 1604 component, rectangular components with aluminum tracings, 91, circa 1960 (CBI Artifacts Box 1)
• 1604 component, rectangular components with aluminum tracings, 91, circa 1960 (CBI Artifacts Box 1)
• 1604 component, rectangular component with aluminum tracings, 1C2303LV63, circa 1960 (CBI Artifacts Box 1)
• 1604 component, rectangular components with aluminum tracings with CDC 102 and CDC 103 resistors, 61, circa 1960 (CBI Artifacts Box 1)
• 1604 Computer Circuit Board, 1960 (Box 2)
• 1604 Digital Switching Circuit, circa 1959 (on exhibit)
• 1604 Emblem, 1960 (on exhibit)
• 1604 Logic Module, circa 1960 (Box 3)
• 1604 Paper Tape (Box 3)
• Music: “Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairies,” 10300-10477
• Music: “Dixie,” 10300-10751
• Lil’Esop V.2.6 BIOCTAL
• Music, 10350
• Music: “12^th Street Rag,” 10300-10654
• OSAS-A BIOCTAL, 1141
• Music: “Jingle Bells,” 1011-10770
• Music: “Xmas Carols,” 10300-10546
• I x Texas, 10000-10741
• Music: “To Wisconsin,” 10000-10741
• Music: “America, the Beautiful,” 10300-10530
• Music Library [2 rolls]
• 3333-F component, encased in acrylic, undated (CBI Artifacts Box 6)
• 3500 Computer Memory Module, 1969 (Box 3)
• 3600 Logic Module, circa 1963 (Box 1)
• 6600 Computer Logic Module & Connector, circa 1963 (Box 1)
• 6600 Computer Memory Module, 1964 (Box 2)
• 6600 Computer Memory Module, Prototype 4K + 12 bits, circa 1963 (Box 1)
• 7600 Circuit Board, circa 1969 (Box 1)
• 7600 Module SA—Sense Amplifier, circa 1969 (Box 1)
• AN/AYK-14(v) Cardboard Replica, undated (Box 3)
• Norb Berg Artifacts (Box 4)
• Check encased in plastic written for $15,000,000 from International Business Machines Corporation to Control Data Corporation on 11 January 1973
• “A Memento of Control Data Corporation’s Offering of 1,500,000 Common Shares, September 23, 1980, Offering Price $75.50 Per Share”
• “The Queen’s Award for Export Achievement 1982,” given to Control Data Wales, 1982
• Wood plaque with etched metal plate, “Presented to Norb Berg, 23^rd February 1983”
• Brass plate, inscribed Control Data, Disk Storage Drive Serial Number 5000, 853, undated (Box 1)
• Buttons, undated: 10 buttons of various sizes (Box 3)
• "CDC Will Succeed" (2)
• Cyber 960
• "Damn the Torpedoes" (2)
• "Herb Buys From CDC"
• "I'm Proud To Be On the Control Data Team" (2)
• "It's OK to Smile" (2)
• Carriage Tapes, undated (Box 3)
• CDC Flexible Disk—checked out for State Fair Exhibit (CBI Artifacts Box 6)
• Chip, C04333AB, opaque white plastic with aluminum tracings, undated (CBI Artifacts Box 3)
• Chip, C04238AB, opaque white plastic with aluminum tracings, undated (CBI Artifacts Box 3)
• Chip, C05038AB, opaque white plastic with aluminum tracings, undated (CBI Artifacts Box 3)
• Dimension IV, light bulb encased in 6 sided box, 1967 (Box 3)
• Cartridge Disk Drive, CH8-2133, undated (Box 3)
• Cartridge Disk Drive, CH8-2180, undated (Box 3)
• Check, canceled blue-green safety check encased in acrylic, issued by Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith Inc. in the amount of $109,290,000.00, September 30, 1980" (CBI Artifacts Box 6)
• Memory Unit, Buweps, Fabri-Tek Inc., F502 (Box 2)
• Cyber 170, Logic Boards red. memory, undated (Box 3)
• Cyber 170, Logic Boards red. memory, undated (Box 3)
• Cyber 170, Series 700, 1979 (Box 2)
• Cyber 170, CPU card, circa 1979 (Box 2)
• Cyber 200 Support Task Force wooden plaque awarded to Lloyd M. Thorndyke for Outstanding Performance, undated (Box 6)
• ETA framed posted of ETA Minnesota license plate (suite)
• ETA Systems 5000A framed cartoon from the St. Paul Dispatch, circa 1984 (Box 6)
• ETA Systems Racing to win encasing, October 1987 (Box 3)
• ETA Systems check made out to Lloyd M. Thorndyke for $1.00, encased and framed, with gold plaque “L.M. Thorndyke 1983-1989” (Box 2)
• Gold nylon banner, Peripheral Products Company, November 1980 (Box 2)
• Line terminator, A-D converter, circa 1960 (Box 1)
• Logic Modules for Buweps, circa 1960 (Box 2)
• Miscellaneous computer parts (Box 5; 6)
• OEM Control Data Disk Drives, Magnetic Recording Heads (Box 4)
• Voice coil drive, Cartridge disk drive "2314 Type"
• High performance drive "3330 Type"
• Storage module drive, Cartridge module drive, Three CDC patents, No IBM equivalents
• Fixed module drive, Mini module drive, "Winchester" type
• Postage stamp modules used in Data Entry equip for Acceptance Checkout Equipment, 1965 (Box 2)
• Prospectus, encased in acrylic, circa 1972 (Box 3)
• Rectangular components, undated (CBI Artifacts Box 1)
• Manufactured by Moldtronics, solid black plastic [connectors?]
• With aluminum tracings, 1C2013
• With aluminum tracings, 1C2313 (2 components)
• With aluminum tracings, 1C2313FV13
• With aluminum tracings, 1C2313FV13
• With aluminum tracings, 1C2799ETRG1
• Reels (Box 4)
• LILESP Source File, AL UHR 770310, 28 September 1970
• Miscellaneous P.T.s, 160-A Progs and others, December 1982
• VSN=ONE60A, 160A/8090 Software Update Format OLDPL, AL UHR 780314 (also includes 200 UT Simulators for IBM 1130, Honeywell 200, and CDC 1700), March 14, 1978 VSN=ONE60A, 160A/8090 Software Update OLDPL, 2 Files Twice: 1) MARC Terminals 2), undated
• Sense Amp 1000-416, Fabri-Tek A110-428, Assembly 190-178 encased in acrylic, undated (CBI Artifacts Box 6)
• STAR-100 Glass desk decoration, with sticker on bottom denoting “Glass salvaged from damaged door of S/N 102” (Box 3)
• Wood plaque with aluminum plate with inscription, and a CDC component encased in acrylic block. The acrylic block has broken loose from the plaque. Inscribed … "… from this building block, we will build a computer…Control Data Corporation; 1957-15-September-1967; Presented to William C. Norris; in grateful appreciation of his leadership; by Seymour R. Cray, Henry S. Forrest, William R. Keye, James G. Miles, Robert L. Perkins; commemorating the start of engineering operations 15 September 1957 and on behalf of his early associates…," circa 1967 (CBI Artifacts Box 6)