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BUNCH - 3 reference results

Bunch may refer to:

BUNCH, competitors in computer manufacturing
The Bunch, a 1972 folk rock group
Bunch grass, any grass of the Poaceae family
Bunch, Oklahoma, a village in the state of Oklahoma in the United States of America
Chris Bunch, an American science fiction and television writer
John Bunch, a jazz pianist born in the city of Tipton in the state of Indiana in the United States of America
The Brady Bunch, an American television situation comedy, based around a large blended family.

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.
Hewlett-Packard (HP) was founded in 1939 and started manufacturing advanced medical equipment. Later HP also produced minicomputers, which competed with mainframe computers.