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	ORGANIZATION:	System Development Corporation
	ACTIVE DATES:	1956-
	ADDRESS:	Santa Monica, CA
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	PERSONS INVOLVED:	Harold Borko; Carlos A. Cuadra; James L. Dolby; Lauren Doyle; Herbert M. Ohlman
	MAJOR PROJECTS:
	OTHER INFORMATION:	SDC grew out of the Rand Corp.'s System Research Laboratory (a USAF think-tank) and an MIT Lincoln Labs project - SAGE(Semi-Automatic Ground Environment), an air defense system. SAGE was the "first computer-based, real-time, online, manmachine system;" and "it revolutionized the information industry by spanning the prehistoric computer era of serial batch processing and the modern world of interactive systems;" (The System Builders, p. 20) The "convergence of the two projects came when the Rand Corporation agreed to provide the software programming for SAGE in 1955; Starting with only five Rand programmers, the SAGE project and staff grew quickly and soon totaled more people than the RAND Corporation itself; 1955 - project became the independent System Development Division; 1956 - it's role, size and future prospects as a systems designer conflicted with Rand's charter as a researcher for the USAF; 1956 - new, non-profit corp. formed - SDC; 1981 - became an independent Burroughs Corporation subsidiary.
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	PAPERS AT: LOCATION	University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, Babbage Institute
	PAPERS DATES:	1946 - 1982
	SIZE:	23 cubic feet
	INCLUDES:	Contains the records of the SDC, including a history file with information about the RAND Corporation, the System Development Division, and the SDC; Also contains correspondence, meetings and minutes, symposiums and presentations, poduct literature, technical iterature, reports, and a subject file; unpublished inventory available from the repository; Forms part of the Burroughs Corporations Records.
	SOURCE:	RLIN



	PAPERS AT: LOCATION #2	Stanford University, Department of Special Collections.
	PAPERS DATES:	1957 - 1993
	SIZE:	170 linear feet
	INCLUDES:	Found in the System Development Foundation records; SDF was created in 1969 as a non-profit funding organization during the transition of the SDC to for-profit status; contains research files and project reports, which are arranged by grant number; there is an index at the end of the guide arranged by recipient, institution, and subject of project.
	SOURCE:	RLIN

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-SDC grew out of the Rand Corp.'s System Research Laboratory (a USAF think-tank) and an <b>MIT</b> Lincoln Labs project - SAGE(Semi-Automatic Ground Environment), an air defense system.  SAGE was the &quot;first computer-based, real-time, online, manmachine system;&quot; and &quot;it revolutionized the information industry by spanning the prehistoric computer era of serial batch processing and the modern world of interactive systems;&quot; (<i>The System Builders</i>, p. 20)
+SDC grew out of the Rand Corp.'s System Research Laboratory (a USAF think-tank) and an <b>[[Massachusetts Institute of Technology|MIT]]</b> Lincoln Labs project - SAGE(Semi-Automatic Ground Environment), an air defense system.  SAGE was the &quot;first computer-based, real-time, online, manmachine system;&quot; and &quot;it revolutionized the information industry by spanning the prehistoric computer era of serial batch processing and the modern world of interactive systems;&quot; (<i>The System Builders</i>, p. 20)
 <p>  The &quot;convergence of the two projects came when the Rand Corporation agreed to provide the software programming for SAGE in 1955; Starting with only five Rand programmers, the SAGE project and staff grew quickly and soon totaled more people than the RAND Corporation itself; 1955 - project became the independent System Development Division; 1956 - it's role, size and future prospects as a systems designer conflicted with Rand's charter as a researcher for the USAF; 1956  - new, non-profit corp. formed - SDC; 1981 - became an independent Burroughs Corporation subsidiary.
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