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Data General Corporation was an early minicomputer firm formed in 1968. Three of the four founders were former employees of Digital Equipment Corporation.
Headquarters in Westborough, Massachusetts, 1981
Data General Nova System
Data General mN601G, used in the microNova
Data General Eclipse C/330
Data General Nova
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The Nova is a series of 16-bit minicomputers released by the American company Data General. The Nova family was very popular in the 1970s and ultimately sold tens of thousands of units.
Data General
…minicomputer firm formed in 1968. Three of the four founders were former employees of Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC). Their first product, 1969's Data General Nova, was a 16-bit minicomputer intended to both outperform and cost less than the equivalent from DEC, the 12-bit PDP-8. A basic Nova system cost two-thirds…
Data General Nova 1200 front panel
A Nova 820, mid-right, processed the images generated by the EMI-Scanner, the world's first commercially available CT scanner.
Nova 1200 CPU printed circuit board. The 74181 ALU is the large IC center-right.