Scientific Data Systems, or SDS, was an
American computer company founded in September 1961 by
Max Palevsky, a veteran of
Packard Bell and
Bendix, along with eleven other computer scientists. SDS was an early adopter of
integrated circuits in computer design and the first to employ
silicon transistors. The company concentrated on larger scientific workload focused machines and sold many machines to
NASA during the
Space Race. Most machines were both fast and relatively low priced. The company was sold to
Xerox in 1969, but mismanagement and dwindling sales caused Xerox to close the division in 1975 at a loss of hundreds of millions of dollars. During the Xerox years the company was officially Xerox Data Systems, or XDS.
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