Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Computing/2019 January 27

= January 27 =

SciData computers
In the 1970s there were some minicomputers named SciData. I saw at least two of them. They had 12K but I'm not sure if that is in words or bytes. I can't find anything about them. They don't seem to be related to Scientific Data Systems, but I don't know. Does anyone know anything about SciData computers? Bubba73 You talkin' to me? 00:11, 27 January 2019 (UTC)
 * The closest thing I can recall are the unique computers created by SiCortex in the mid-2000s. I recall a fellow researcher had been using one of their machines to benchmark some physics simulations before the company stopped building and supporting them.  I do not know if the SiCortex machines, or the people who designed them, ever had any shared lineage with the SciData computers from several decades earlier.  Nimur (talk) 16:55, 29 January 2019 (UTC)


 * These were definitely minicomputers and in the mid 1970s. They may have been something else rebranded.  Bubba73 You talkin' to me? 02:55, 30 January 2019 (UTC)


 * SciData of Atlanta, GA, I think? They seem to have specialized in automating agricultural feeding systems, and (perhaps) to have been absorbed by Computer Usage Company in 1977 or so, though that might be another Scidata -- the name's been used a few times. --jpgordon&#x1d122;&#x1d106; &#x1D110;&#x1d107; 00:57, 3 February 2019 (UTC)


 * Yes, it is likely that they were in Atlanta. I know one was used in a college in the University of Georgia system and I saw another one in the Macon (Georgia) Mall. I heard that someone in the Georgia government was recommending them.  (We wondered if there was a kickback.)  A professor complained that they replaced the Univac 9200 with 16K with the SciData with 12K.  Of course, it might have been 12K words vs. 16K bytes, but I don't know.  Bubba73 You talkin' to me? 01:11, 3 February 2019 (UTC)