Edson de Castro

Edson de Castro (born 1938)^[1] is a computer engineer and businessman, perhaps best known for designing the Data General Nova series of computers.^[2]

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 partner. He also was the project manager in charge of developing the PDP-8 mini computer at Digital Equipment Corporation,^[3] before leaving to form Data General Corporation.^[3] 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, in 1963. Jean was a school teacher and Edson worked at Digital Equipment. They divorced in 1980.^[4]

Books

Kidder, Tracy (1981). The Soul of a New Machine. Boston: Little, Brown. ISBN 978-0-316-49170-9.

References

^ "Oral History of Edson (Ed) D. de Castro" (PDF). Computer History Museum.
^ "Data General NOVA (1969)". Archived from the original on 2001-08-12. Retrieved 2010-06-27.
^ ^a ^b Hyatt, Joshua (April 1, 2003). "The Business That Time Forgot Data General is gone. But does that make its founder a failure?". money.cnn.com. Retrieved 2022-05-29.
^ "DeCastro v. DeCastro". Justia Law. Retrieved 13 February 2021.

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[1] "Oral History of Edson (Ed) D. de Castro" (PDF). Computer History Museum.

[2] "Data General NOVA (1969)". Archived from the original on 2001-08-12. Retrieved 2010-06-27.

[CNN-3] Hyatt, Joshua (April 1, 2003). "The Business That Time Forgot Data General is gone. But does that make its founder a failure?". money.cnn.com. Retrieved 2022-05-29.

[4] "DeCastro v. DeCastro". Justia Law. Retrieved 13 February 2021.

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