Comments on aprigliano.org: Control Data Corporation and Dad.

Hello, I was thrilled to find your old pics! My fa...

2008-07-02T17:27:00.000-04:00

Hello, I was thrilled to find your old pics! My father Alfred D. Riggs, Jr. worked for Control Data in the 1970's in the Ontario office, from what I know everyone knew him as "Al". My father died of lung cancer on March 23, 1978--I know for a fact he was working for Control Data at time of his death. He was 39 years old when he passed away, he was originally from New Orleans. My name is Cheryl Riggs, and I am his baby daughter,now 40 years of age myself.I am desperately trying to find anyone that might have worked with him or knew him. My parents split when I was 5, my father died when I was 10, so I know very little about him. I am not looking to bother anybody and I have no alterior motives, I am just hoping to find someone who knew him and would be kind enough to tell me what my father was like. I would be thrilled to hear from anybody!
Thank you very much in advance to anyone who might remember my Dad and wouldn't mind sharing memories with me. (My email is sperlthegirl@yahoo.com)
Very Gratefully,
Cheryl Riggs

I worked for Control Data Corp. (CDC) on the Post ...

2007-11-23T17:15:00.000-05:00

I worked for Control Data Corp. (CDC) on the Post Office computer sytems in the early '70s.
The Post Source Data Systems. "PSDS" as it was called, collected information like a time clock, but also tracked the volumne of the mail that moved thru each Post Office with scales and supervisor input into the Transactors. There were "Transactors" and "Badge Readers" (a small version of the Transactor) in every Post Office in the country. These sent their data to "Data Centers" (usually the largest Post Office in a given city, where it was forwarded to "Concentrator Sites" (San Francisco on the West Coast) that sent the data on to St. Louis. All the mail flow in the country was tracked by weight and truck shipments and the personnal where moved around to where the mail was heavyest. Control Data PSDS was originally maintained by CDC and later by the Post Office mechanics.

Let's bring back smoking in the workplace - looks ...

2006-12-18T10:48:00.000-05:00

Let's bring back smoking in the workplace - looks so cool.

These pics look really good. Great post!