Edson de Castro

Edson de Castro (born 1938)[1] is a computer engineer perhaps best known for designing the Data General Nova series of computers.[2]

De Castro was founder and CEO of Data General Corporation throughout the 1970s, the 1980s and into the 1990s when he was replaced by Ronald L Skates, a former Price Waterhouse Coopers partner. He also was the project manager in charge of developing the PDP-8 mini computer at Digital Equipment Corporation,[3] before leaving to form Data General Corporation.

Books
  • Kidder, Tracy (1981). The Soul of a New Machine. Boston: Little, Brown. ISBN 978-0-316-49170-9.
gollark: It is possible to exploit this using a "spread-spectrum" thing, but really who cares.
gollark: My trilaterators on SC either monitor fixed channels or use the last 127 from a public modem sniffer, which works fine but means that if someone sends on a new channel for the first time in a while it won't know where that was from.
gollark: Then you'd miss things.
gollark: Are detectable via high entropy, although that would be a bit performance-intensive to check and might be false-positive-laden.
gollark: (1285712894 = 2048)

References
  1. "Oral History of Edson (Ed) D. de Castro" (PDF). Computer History Museum.
  2. "Data General NOVA (1969)". Archived from the original on 2001-08-12. Retrieved 2010-06-27.
  3. "The Business That Time Forgot Data General is gone. But does that make its founder a failure? - April 1, 2003". money.cnn.com. Retrieved 2020-04-29.


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