Control Data Corporation: the Norris era

From a modest start in 1957, Control Data Corporation under the leadership of its founder, William C. Norris, grew rapidly to become a worldwide, multibillion dollar enterprise, the major producer of the world´s most powerful computers and peripheral products and provider of a wide range of vital computer services. Along the way the company explored means for applying digital technologies to aid in the solution of critical problems of contemporary society. From a pinnacle of achievement by the early 1980s, Control Data slipped into a series of technological and financial crises, from which it is still struggling to emerge