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Edson Castro

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

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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, 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. 

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