Talk:Business Controls Corporation

Latest comment: 6 years ago by Pi314m in topic Hardware/Turnkey days

Hardware/Turnkey days

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At one point, alluded to in the "Early days" section, the company also delivered hardware/software combinations. A typical Turnkey configuration was a PDP-8a.

This part of their business was well before their SB-5 offering.

I only found one reference to the hardware side of BCC, and it didn't mention PDP-8 or the word turnkey; in fact it made them look like a hardware integrator without a software side. Pi314m (talk) 04:28, 4 September 2018 (UTC)Reply

and beyond

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That AIP not only considered BCC but that fact got coverage in an industry periodical may not be NYTimes level of notability, but it is notable, and I included this in edits I made since the article was HatNoted. The AIP minutes mention a UNIVAC, so the fact that back then (pre-Open-xxx) they considered non-Unisys hardware is interesting. Pi314m (talk) 04:28, 4 September 2018 (UTC)Reply

a bit more re notability

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Wikipedia's Notability (organizations and companies) guideline says:

An organization is generally considered notable if it has been the subject of significant coverage in reliable, independent secondary sources. Trivial or incidental coverage of a subject by secondary sources is not sufficient to establish notability. All content must be verifiable. If no independent, third-party, reliable sources can be found on a topic, then Wikipedia should not have an article on it.

While most citations are from Computerworld, it's not the only coverage cited. Pi314m (talk) 04:43, 4 September 2018 (UTC)Reply