Engineering Research Associates organization
also: ERA, Engineering Research Association
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U.S. Navyorganization · 3Seymour Crayperson · 3Remington Randorganization · 2William C. Norrisperson · 1Chase Aircraftorganization · 1NSAintelligence service · 1U.S. Congressorganization · 1BOGARToperation · 1Control Data Corporationorganization · 1UNIVACorganization · 1
Claims (2)
Seymour Cray member_of
Engineering Research Associates host_asserted
“So the control data system lead engineer was a guy by the name of Seymour Cray, C-R-A-Y. He was a World War II Navy codebreaker. He worked at an organization called Engineering.…”
▶ AlphaWarrior - ColonelTowner-Watkins OPERATION GLADIO - CHAPTER 52 - _SUPER COMPUTERS @ 15:28
Chase Aircraft founded
Engineering Research Associates host_asserted
“ERA, that was set up as a subsidiary of Chase Aircraft, is sold to Remington Rand.…”
▶ AlphaWarrior - ColonelTowner-Watkins OPERATION GLADIO - CHAPTER 52 - _SUPER COMPUTERS @ 20:58
Mentions (6)
▶ 15:28
I think when I was working on this, it may have been Sunday, I was like, nobody's even going to believe this. All right. So the control data system lead engineer was a guy by the name of Seymour Cray, C-R-A-Y. He was a World War II Navy cod…
▶ 15:59
Research Associates. It's referred to as ERA, Engineering Research Association, which started out as a Navy lab project dealing with intelligence. They built code breaking machines in that lab, and then they basically handed them out.…
▶ 16:28
to Engineering Research Association to create, you know, to manufacture them. So ERA was bought with Seymour by Remington Rand. And then it becomes Remington Rand Sperry, and then it becomes Sperry Rand. So those are just some of the iterat…
▶ 20:58
Navy contracts. That's how ERA was actually created in 1946. Again, we're just post-World War II. Congress finds out that the Navy is using a front company, Chase Aircraft, and basically puts the kibosh on that. ERA, that was set up as a su…
▶ 21:28
They didn't like working for a big company because they do very specialized intelligence shit. So the two guys, Seymour Cray and William Norris, leave ERA and they set up their own company called Control Data. I am going to do my best to st…
▶ 45:36
Bogart was a special purpose computer designed by NSA and built by the Engineering Research Associates, which is at ERA, which was one of the original iterations of CDC. And it later was a contract was given to UNIVAC, which is one of the s…