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The group of mainframe computer competitors to IBM in the 1970s became known as the BUNCH: Burroughs, UNIVAC, NCR, Control Data Corporation, and Honeywell. These companies were grouped together because the market share of IBM was much higher than all of its competitors put together.[1][2]

During the 1960s, IBM and these five computer manufacturers, along with RCA and General Electric, had been known as "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs." The description of IBM's competitors changed after GE's 1970 sale of its computer business to Honeywell and RCA's 1971 sale of its computer business to Univac, leaving only five "dwarfs". Fortunately, their initials lent themselves to a new acronym, BUNCH.

Where are they now?

Burroughs & UNIVAC: In September 1986, after Burroughs purchased Sperry (the parent company of UNIVAC), the name of the company was changed to Unisys.
NCR: In 1982, NCR became involved in open systems architecture, starting with the UNIX-powered TOWER 16/32, and placed more emphasis on computers smaller than mainframes. NCR was acquired by AT&T in 1991. A restructuring of AT&T in 1996, led to its re-establishment on 1 January 1997, as a separate company. In 1998, NCR sold its computer hardware manufacturing assets to Solectron and ceased to produce general-purpose computer systems.
Control Data Corporation: Control Data Corporation is now Syntegra (USA), a subsidiary of British company BT Group's BT Global Services.
Honeywell: In 1991 Honeywell's computer division was sold to the French computer company Groupe Bull.

Other mainframe manufacters during the 1960s and 1970s

  • Scientific Data Systems (later known as Xerox Data Systems after its purchase by Xerox in 1969) also sold mainframe computers, but with around 1% marketshare, it was not a major factor in the marketplace. Xerox closed the division in 1975, with most rights sold to Honeywell.
  • In 1976, Cray Research (a company supported by Seymour Cray's former employer Control Data Corporation), released the Cray-1 vector computer.
  • Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC) was founded in 1957 to manufacture computer components, and made many small computers, notably the PDP series. These computers were classified as minicomputers rather than mainframes, but often competed for the same business.

References

1. ^ Jones, Douglas (1997). University of Iowa Department of Computer Science, 22C:18, Lecture 28, Summer 1997. Retrieved on 2007-09-15.
2. ^ Hamm, Steve (2004-06-14). Thomas J. Watson Jr.: Junior Achievement. Business Week. Retrieved on 2007-09-15.
Rock On is a 1972 one-off album of oldies covers by the Bunch, a group of English folk-rock singers and musicians, including Richard Thompson and Sandy Denny.

Fledg'ling Records reissued the album on compact disc in 2003 [1] .
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Folk rock is a musical genre, combining elements of folk music and rock music.

In its earliest and narrowest sense, the term referred to a genre that arose in the United States and Canada around the mid-1960s.
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Also commonly called tussock grass, bunch grasses are any grass that grows in clumps or tufts, rather than forming a sod or mat. As perennial plants, they live more than one season.
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Subfamilies

There are 7 subfamilies:
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Subfamily Centothecoideae
Subfamily Chloridoideae
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Bunch, Oklahoma is a small, unincorporated village in southwestern Adair County, Oklahoma. It was named after a Cherokee vice-chief named Rabbit Bunch who lived in the area in the 1880's.
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State of Oklahoma

Flag of Oklahoma Seal
Nickname(s): Sooner State
Motto(s): Labor omnia vincit (Latin: Labor conquers all things)

Official language(s) None

Capital Oklahoma City

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Chris Bunch
Born: 22 December 1943
Fresno, California
Died: 4 July 2005
Ilwaco, Washington
Occupation: Novelist, television writer
Nationality: American
Genres: Science fiction, Fantasy

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John Bunch (born December 1 1921) is an American jazz pianist born in Tipton, Indiana, a small farming community. He studied piano from George Johnson, a well-known Hoosier jazz pianist, and at the age of 14 was already playing with adult bands in central Indiana.
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City of Tipton
Location in the state of Indiana
Coordinates:
Country United States
State Indiana
County Tipton
Area
 - City  1.9 sq mi (4.
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The State of Indiana

Flag of Indiana Seal
Nickname(s): The Hoosier State

Motto(s): The Crossroads of America

Official language(s) English

Capital Indianapolis (785,597)

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The Brady Bunch is an American television situation comedy, based around a large blended family. The show originally aired from September 26, 1969 to August 30, 1974 on the ABC network and was subsequently syndicated across the world.
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A situation comedy, usually referred to as a sitcom, is a genre of comedy programs which originated in radio. Today, sitcoms are found almost exclusively on television, as one of its dominant narrative forms.
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The Wild Bunch was a group of outlaws based in Indian Territory that committed robberies, hold ups and killed lawmen during the 1890s.

The Wild Bunch is a 1969 western film about an aging group of outlaws.
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Mainframes (often colloquially referred to as Big Iron) are computers used mainly by large organizations for critical applications, typically bulk data processing such as census, industry and consumer statistics, ERP, and financial transaction processing.
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International Business Machines Corporation

Public (NYSE:  IBM )
Founded 1889, incorporated 1911
Headquarters Armonk, New York, USA

Key people Samuel J.
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Centuries: 19th century - 20th century - 21st century

1940s 1950s 1960s - 1970s - 1980s 1990s 2000s
1970 1971 1972 1973 1974
1975 1976 1977 1978 1979

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- The 1970s decade refers to the years from 1970 to 1979, also called
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The Burroughs Corporation began in 1886 as the American Arithmometer Company in St. Louis, Missouri selling an adding machine invented by William Seward Burroughs.
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NCR Corporation

Public
Founded 1884, 1997
Headquarters Dayton, Ohio

Key people Bill Nuti, CEO
Industry Technology
Products data warehouses, ATMs,
retail store automation
Revenue 6.028 billion USD (2005)
Employees 28,201
Website www.ncr.
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Control Data Corporation (CDC), was one of the pioneering supercomputer firms. For most of the 1960s they built the fastest computers in the world by far, only losing that crown in the 1970s to what was effectively a spinoff.
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Honeywell International, Inc.

Public
Founded 1906, 1999 by merger with AlliedSignal
Headquarters Morristown, New Jersey

Products Aerospace & Defense , Automation & Control Solutions , Specialty Materials
Revenue $31.4 billion USD (2006)
Net income $ 2.
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Market share, in strategic management and marketing, is the percentage or proportion of the total available market or market segment that is being serviced by a company.
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RCA, formerly an acronym for the Radio Corporation of America, is now a trademark owned by Thomson SA through RCA Trademark Management S.A., a company owned by Thomson.
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General Electric Co.

Public (NYSE:  GE )
Founded 1878 in Menlo Park, New Jersey
Founder Thomas Alva Edison
Headquarters Fairfield, Connecticut,[1] USA

Key people Jeff Immelt, Chairman & CEO
Keith Sherin, Vice Chairman, CFO
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Acronyms and initialisms are abbreviations, such as NATO, laser, and IBM, that are formed using the initial letters of words or word parts in a phrase or name.
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Sperry Corporation (1910-1986) was a major American equipment and electronics company whose existence spanned more than seven decades of the twentieth century.

Early history

The company was founded in 1910 as the Sperry Gyroscope Company
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Unisys Corporation

Public (NYSE: UIS )
Founded 1886 as American Arithmometer Company
1986 as Unisys
Headquarters Blue Bell, Pennsylvania, United States

Key people Joseph W.
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Open systems architecture, in telecommunication, is a standard that describes the layered hierarchical structure, configuration, or model of a communications or distributed data processing system that:

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Unix (officially trademarked as UNIX®) is a computer operating system originally developed in 1969 by a group of AT&T employees at Bell Labs including Ken Thompson, Dennis Ritchie and Douglas McIlroy.
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AT&T Inc.

Public (NYSE:  T )
Founded 1983[1]
Headquarters San Antonio, Texas, USA

Key people Randall L. Stephenson, Chairman/CEO; Richard Lindner, CFO
Industry Telecommunications
Products Wireless, Telephone, Internet, Television
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