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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...plans to challenge the International Business Machines Corp. in IBM's home market. The foreign businessmen: President Joseph Callies, 50, and General Manager Georges Vieillard, 64, of France's fast-rising La Compagnie des Machines Bull. Barely known outside France ten years ago, Machines Bull manufactures a line of punch-card and sorting machines topped off by computers. Recently it pulled abreast of IBM in many markets of the Continent, is now the biggest computer maker outside...
...only $140,000 in capital, Vieillard soon needed more financing, sold a 70% interest in the company to the wealthy Callies family (paper mills), closely related to the Michelin and Citroen family. With new capital, the company plunged into research, soon turned out a tabulator capable of writing 150 lines a minute when other tabulators were only half as fast. During the war its engineers designed a postwar line of advanced electronic computers, the first of which, the Gamma 3, appeared...
Using germanium diodes instead of tubes," the Gamma 3 proved a versatile workhorse computer, led Machines Bull engineers to design the new Gamma 60 line. The Gamma 60s, coming out in January, are the last word in "simultaneous" computer design, are as far ahead of the Gamma 35, says Callies, as a pipe organ is ahead of a flute. Costing $1,000,000 to $3,000,000 each, depending on the number of components used, the 60s can make 10,000 additions, 3,333 multiplications, 1,666 divisions and 10,000 mathematical decisions each second. One part of the computer...
...post put Greenough in line as heir to James M. Symes, who moved up from president to chairman and remained chief executive officer. Symes, 62, plans to retire in 2½ years, in Pennsy fashion wanted to pick his successor well ahead of time...
...line must be drawn between those affidavits of belief which the University will accept and those which it will not, President Pusey's decision to continue administration of all National Science Foundation fellowships was a wise one. But the foundations of this decision made by Faculty vote last Tuesday conflict with the University's entire rationale in dealing with the National Defense Education...