... industrial district Control Data Corporation Engineering Research Associates Sperry Rand Univac Remington Rand International Business Machines Minnesota Educational Computing Consortium In its early years, Minnesota’s computer industry was improbably but decisively yoked to the Philadelphia story...

... Univac Remington Rand International Business Machines Minnesota Educational Computing Consortium IBM was the first computer company to consciously choose Minnesota as a base of operations. The state’s other computing ventures had arrived somewhat by happenstance or grown organically as start-ups...

... Corporation Engineering Research Associates Sperry Rand Univac Remington Rand International Business Machines Minnesota Educational Computing Consortium The emergence of Minnesota’s industrial district, traced in this book, remains vital to the state’s economy and future prospects. This chapter ties...

... WWW Minnesota economy and history high-technology industrial district Control Data Corporation Engineering Research Associates Sperry Rand Univac Remington Rand International Business Machines Minnesota Educational Computing Consortium Minnesota’s computer industry transformed the state’s...

... Control Data Corporation Engineering Research Associates Sperry Rand Univac Remington Rand International Business Machines Minnesota Educational Computing Consortium The place in St. Paul where Minnesota’s computing industry was born neatly connected the state’s prairie history with its high...

...-technology industrial district Control Data Corporation Engineering Research Associates Sperry Rand Univac Remington Rand International Business Machines Minnesota Educational Computing Consortium Minnesota’s computing destiny, during much of the 1950s, was decided at Remington Rand’s corporate...

... Engineering Research Associates Sperry Rand Univac Remington Rand International Business Machines Minnesota Educational Computing Consortium A calendar from 1957 brims with events that reshaped the landscape of computing in Minnesota and the world. The events rippled outward from the Soviet Union’s...

... Minnesota’s Medical Alley Pillsbury Company shopping malls Southdale Mall business machine industry Occupational Wage Survey U S Bureau of Labor Statistics Chicago Illinois Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis gender and employment Occupational Outlook Minnesota Educational Computing Consortium MECC...

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... (such as the Minneapolis Federal Reserve, the University of Minnesota, and the Minnesota Educational Computing Consortium). A unique firm-level dataset of nearly 250 Minnesota computer companies (1980-2011) anatomizes significant connections between the computing industry and today’s medical device industry...