George Cogar | |
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| Born | George R. Cogar 1932 Gassaway, West Virginia, U.S. |
| Disappeared | September 2, 1983 (aged 50–51) British Columbia, Canada |
| Status | Missing for 41 years, 9 months and 15 days |
| Spouse | Ann Cogar |
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George R. Cogar (born 1932, disappeared 1983) was an American computer scientist and engineer. He was the head of the UNIVAC 1004 electronic design team code named the "bumblebee project", and later the "barn project", and co-founder of Mohawk Data Sciences Corporation, a Herkimer, New York-based multimillion-dollar business. His most successful invention was the Data Recorder magnetic tape encoder, which was introduced in 1965 and eliminated the need for keypunches and punched cards by direct encoding on tape.[1][2][3][4] He also founded the Cogar Corporation, where he built an intelligent terminal—an early forerunner of the modern personal computer—which he called the Cogar System 4[5] or Cogar 4. The Cogar 4 became the Singer 1500 after Singer Business Machines acquired Cogar Corporation. In 1976 International Computers Limited (ICL) acquired Singer Business Machines, changing the name of the computer to the ICL 1500.
- ^ Stacy V. Jones, "Data-Recorder Takes Short Cuts; Punch-Card Use Eliminated By Direct Coding on Tape Wide Variety of Ideas Covered By Patents Issued During Week", New York Times, December 13, 1969
- ^ Roger R. Flynn, ed. (2002). "Tabulating Machines". Computer sciences. Vol. 1: Foundations: Ideas and People. New York: Macmillan Reference USA. p. 188. ISBN 0028655672. OCLC 671558424.
- ^ US 3483523, George Cogar, "Data recording and verifying machine"
- ^ "Mohawk Data Sciences Corporation (MDS) | Selling the Computer Revolution". Computer History Museum. Retrieved 2022-01-17.
- ^ Cogar System 4: System Summary (PDF).