I’m not asking you to understand specifics of the following opening Exhibits. They are simply prelude to the principal points made in this post.
Exhibit IV: The Current Blogger Sites
From my iPad Notes app, May 2025:
SperryCorporation
History:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sperry_Corporation
FTA: <<In 1977, Sperry Rand [Monomax] purchased Varian Data Machines so as to enter the minicomputer market. Varian would be renamed as the Sperry UNIVAC Minicomputer Operation, operating as part of the Sperry UNIVAC division.[12][13]
In 1978, Sperry Rand decided to concentrate on its computing interests, and sold a number of divisions including Remington Rand Systems, Remington Rand Machines, Ford Instrument Company and Sperry Vickers. The company dropped "Rand" from its title and reverted to Sperry Corporation [Neomax].>>
Varian Data Machines:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Varian_Data_Machines
https://d1yx3ys82bpsa0.cloudfront.net/brochures/varian.73.1972.102646135.pdf
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Varian_Associates
Burroughs Corporation:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burroughs_Corporation
The Burroughs Sperry merger, 1986:
FTA: <<Yesterday's deal came after Sperry, unable to find another suitor to save it from the unwelcome tender offer from Burroughs, gave up last-ditch efforts to remain independent. But it exacted a higher price than Burroughs had wanted to pay. [ Page D1. ] A Fierce Debate Reported The decision to merge was reportedly marked by a fierce debate within the paneled, circular 43d-floor board room at Sperry's headquarters on the Avenue of the Americas at 51st Street, where younger Sperry executives preparing to take charge of the beleaguered company reportedly opposed the merger strongly.
But with no alternatives, the board of directors gave in to W. Michael Blumenthal, the former Treasury Secretary who has led Burroughs for six years. The aggressive Mr. Blumenthal has argued that the computer industry desperately needs a company with what he termed the ''critical mass'' to oppose I.B.M.>>
Sperry CEO IN 1978, J. Paul Lyet, Youtube:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h3e8Nqefx8M
Lyet obit in 1984, NYT:
https://www.nytimes.com/1984/06/08/obituaries/jp-lyet-former-chairman-of-sperrycorporation-dies.html
Probst Obit:
https://www.deseret.com/1989/1/18/18791933/services-planned-friday-for-gerald-g-probst/
Sege Obit:
https://www.crippenandflynnchapels.com/obituary/4641232
INTERESTING THOUGHT:
THOMAS D. SEGE
SEGE = REED
TOMAS D. REED = D. DREAM + STOE(Hidden)
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TOD R. MERCADO = DOCTOR DREAM
Thomas ("Tom") D. Sege passed away peacefully at his home in Woodside, California, surrounded by his loving family and caretaker on March 3, 2015, at the age of 88, due to complications from Alzheimer's. Born on May 17, 1926, in Novi Sad, former Yugoslavia (now Serbia), he lived the majority of his life in Los Altos Hills and Woodside, CA. Tom, his parents Aladar and Shari and brother George fled Yugoslavia via Cuba to the U.S. during the Second World War when he was 12 years old, and he spent the remainder of his youth in New York City. He graduated from Columbia University with a bachelor's and a master's degree in engineering, married Alice Sege and started work at Sperry Gyroscope on Long Island. In 1963, Tom and Alice moved to Los Altos Hills, where Tom became general manager of Eitel-McCollough, or EIMAC, a pioneer in vacuum tube manufacture in Silicon Valley. EIMAC later merged with Varian Associates, where Tom rose through the ranks to become CEO between 1981 and 1990. Under Tom's leadership, Varian grew to more than $1B in revenues per year During his career, Tom pioneered in many areas of radio transmitting tube technology, including the high-powered klystron tube used in radar and television and radio transmission.
Biological memory:
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