Max Palevsky
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Max Palevsky was an American art collector, venture capitalist, philanthropist, and computer technology pioneer. He was known as a member of the Malibu Mafia – a group of wealthy American Jewish men w
The Max Palevsky Residential Commons, a dormitory at the University of Chicago
Scientific Data Systems
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Scientific Data Systems was an American computer company founded in September 1961 by Max Palevsky, Arthur Rock and Robert Beck, veterans of Packard Bell Corporation and Bendix, along with eleven othe
Max Palevsky
…from Arthur Rock and the Rosenwald family of the Sears Roebuck fortune. He left Packard Bell with eleven associates from the computer division to found Scientific Data Systems of California in September 1961. Within a year they introduced the SDS 910, which made the company profitable. Initially, it targeted scientific and…
An XDS Sigma 9 at the Living Computer Museum, Seattle, Washington, 2014