Regnecentralen [SEP] dissolved or abolished
although some were sold to companies both in Denmark and abroad). The Piccolo was powered by the Zilog Z80A CPU, while the Piccoline was powered by the Intel 80186 processor.
Regnecentralen was acquired by ICL in 1989.
External links.
Regnecentralen :
- Regnecentralen (RC) (Google translation) - museum site with many RC related papers, mostly in Danish. Contains also computer simulators (there's one for GIER: English page)
- Highlights of RC's History
- Eulogy: Niels Ivar
Regnecentralen
Regnecentralen, or RC for short, was the first Danish computer company, founded on October 12, 1955. Through the 1950s and 1960s they designed a series of computers, originally for their own use, and later to be sold commercially. Descendants of these systems sold well into the 1980s. They also developed a series of high-speed paper tape machines, and produced Data General Nova machines under license.
Genesis.
What would become RC started as an advisory board formed by the Danish "Akademiet for