Edson de Castro (born 1938) is a
computer engineer and businessman, perhaps best known for designing the
Data General Nova series of computers.
De Castro was founder and CEO of
Data General Corporation throughout the 1970s, the 1980s and into the 1990s when he was replaced by Ronald L Skates, a former
Price Waterhouse Coopers
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partner. He also was the project manager in charge of developing the
PDP-8
The PDP-8 is a 12-bit minicomputer that was produced by Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC). It was the first commercially successful minicomputer, with over 50,000 units being sold over the model's lifetime. Its basic design follows the pioneeri ...
mini computer at
Digital Equipment Corporation
Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC ), using the trademark Digital, was a major American company in the computer industry from the 1960s to the 1990s. The company was co-founded by Ken Olsen and Harlan Anderson in 1957. Olsen was president unti ...
,
before leaving to form Data General Corporation.
As CEO of Data General, he appeared in
Tracy Kidder's book ''
The Soul of a New Machine''.
DeCastro married Jean DeCastro in
Norwich, Connecticut
Norwich ( ) (also called "The Rose of New England") is a city in New London County, Connecticut
New London County is in the southeastern corner of Connecticut and comprises the Norwich-New London, Connecticut Metropolitan Statistical Area, ...
, in 1963. Jean was a school teacher and Edson worked at Digital Equipment. They divorced in 1980.
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Computer hardware engineers
American technology chief executives
1938 births
Living people
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