[inforoots] Origin of the IBM 1130 Name

[Andrew Hastings]

"Peter Capek" <capek at ieee.org> wrote:
> And just to reemphasize the lack of significance in these numbers, I'll
> mention the assertion that Control Data's first serious machine, the 1604,
> was alleged to have been
> arrived at by adding the street number of the building where it was built,
> 501 (North Lexington Ave) to 1103, the number of the Univac machine on which
> some of the engineers worked before leaving to form CDC.   Who knows....

It was 501 Park Ave. (a newsprint warehouse for the Minneapolis Star and 
Minneapolis Tribune), not 501 North Lexington (St. Paul).  The building was 
torn down to make way for the Metrodome in downtown Minneapolis.

http://www.cbi.umn.edu/collections/inv/cdc/histtimeline.html

-Andrew