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<p><b>New page</b></p><div>'''Berkeley Computer Corporation''' (often '''BCC'''), founded in 1968, was a spin-off from from Berkeley's [[Project GENIE]] and the [[CAL Time-Sharing System|CAL-TSS]] project. At the former, the personnel who went to BCC had made hardware and software for creating the [[Berkeley Time-Sharing System|BTSS]] [[time-sharing]] system, running on a modified [[Scientific Data Systems|SDS]] [[SDS 930|930]] (eventually resulting in SDS offering the [[SDS 940|940]] as a product).<br />
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Although it started with $4 million in venture funding, it was short on business acumen, and although they got a prototype [[BCC 500]] mostly done, in 1970, their funding (from the [[mainframe]] leasing company Data Processing Financial & General (DPF&G)) was cut off, and BCC went bankrupt.<br />
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When the BCC offices closed, many of the staff, including [[Butler Lampson]], [[Peter Deutsch]], [[Chuck Thacker]], and [[Charles Simyoni]], went on to [[Xerox]] [[Xerox PARC|PARC]], where they created first the [[Maxc|MAXC]], and later the [[Xerox Alto|Alto]].<br />
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== External links ==<br />
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* [http://www.bitsavers.org/pdf/bcc/ BCC] - documentation at [[Bitsavers]] <br />
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