Talk:System Development Corporation

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Updated first section to expand the timeline between the creation of Unisys and the formation of Paramax. Alanmoll (talk) 21:16, 24 December 2011 (UTC)

Ownership

Fixed year sold to Burroughs. Said 1985; fixed 1980. This is according to Dan Faigin's SDC page in "cahighways.org", which is listed in External links. This also fits my personal recollection as an SDC employee at the time of the sale. RocketSci (talk) 04:09, 25 April 2022 (UTC)

Upon further discussion with former employees, one said the sale to Burroughs was Jan 1, 1981, as published in the "SDC Bulletin" when it happened. Others hired in 1981 believe that date is correct. In his earlier search, Dan Faigin tried to find the date, but 1980 was as close as he could come at the time; he joined a few years later. RocketSci (talk) 23:05, 27 April 2022 (UTC)

Relationship to System Development Foundation?

From https://searchworks.stanford.edu/view/4083735

SDF was created in 1969 as a non-profit funding organization during the transition of the System Development Corporation (SDC) to for-profit status. The SDF Board of Trustees gave its initial grants to non-profit organizations, particularly Cal Tech, U.C. Berkeley, The Rand Corporation, and Stanford University. They backed research primarily in information sciences and the human-machine interface, the areas of expertise of SDC. In the first year SDF funded over $11 million in research; in the next five years it committed itself to $25 million. Recognizing it would terminate its operation in June 1988, funding was stopped for new projects in 1984. In the remaining years they continued to support work already underway. Jim Bowery (talk) 21:41, 8 October 2022 (UTC)