[Collins] Art Collins and Collins Radio

[David Thompson]

I remember seeing one of the Collins Computer Booklets while I was at LSU in 
about 1967 or 8.  It was used as a recruiting booklet by Collins.  At about 
this same time IBM replaced the old 7094's in the LSU computer lab with a 
IBM 360/65 which was Gene Amdahl's first in the 360 series of Enterprise 
Computers which ran from the 360 series through the later 370, and now 390 
series.

I went to work for Burroughs Corp which I found in a conflict between the 
old accounting machine type computers and the newer B series which competed 
head on with the IBM 360.  We installed a B2500 at a big Wire and Cable 
Company south of Atlanta.  The top of the B line was the B5000 which was 
installed at Georgia Tech as a B5500.  Then in 1971 Control Data Came along 
and installed the first of the Cyber Super Computer at Georgia Tech.  I met 
my wife who worked for Control Data in Wind Tunnel testing at Lockheed 
Georgia .

The advances of these companies wiped out Collins attempt in the Computer 
Market.  Only IBM is still a player in the market although Seymour Cray left 
Control Data to form his own Company
Cray Research and is still selling his big vector machines to DOD, NASA and 
the like and his competition is several Japanese Companies.

Dave K4JRB