System Development Corporation, based in Los Angeles, California, was spun off from RAND Corporation in 1957. Originally, it started as the systems engineering group for the SAGE air defense ground system at RAND. After becoming independent from RAND, it went on to provide expertise in design, integration, and testing of large, complex, computer-controlled systems for the military. Alternate meanings: See RAND (disambiguation) The RAND Corporation is an American think tank first formed to offer research and analysis to the U.S. military. ... Species see List of Salvia species Sage is a term used for plants of the genus Salvia of the mint family, Lamiaceae. ...

In the 1960's, SDC developed the timesharing system for the AN/FSQ-32 mainframe computer for ARPA. The Q-32 was one of the first systems to support both multiple users and inter-computer communications. Experiments with a dedicated modem connection to the TX-2 at MIT led to computer communication applications such as email. SDC also developed the JOVIAL programming language commonly used in real-time military systems. Q32 (ANFSQ-32) was a computer made by IBM (International Business Machines) in 1960 and 1961 for the Unites States Air Force Strategic Air Command (SAC). ... The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) is an agency of the United States Department of Defense responsible for the development of new technology for use by the military. ... The MIT Lincoln Laboratory TX-2 computer was the successor to the Lincoln TX-0 and was known for its role in advancing both artificial intelligence and human-computer interaction. ... The Massachusetts Institute of Technology, or MIT, is a research and educational institution located in the city of Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA. MIT is a world leader in science and technology, as well as in many other fields, including management, economics, linguistics, political science, and philosophy. ... JOVIAL stands for The International Algorithmic Language part of the name is from ALGOL. This high order language was developed to write software for the embedded systems of military aircraft by Jules Schwartz in 1959. ...

In the late 1960s SDC became a for profit corporation. With that change, it began to offer its services to all armed forces of the United States of America and to other nations as well. It also began to offer its services to other government agencies both of the United States of America and of other nations.

System Development Corporation was sold by its board of directors to Burroughs Corp. which later merged with Univac. SDC thus sank without a trace. Sic transit gloria mundi.

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In the late 1960s SDC became a for profit corporation. This move led some employees to resign in disgust. Really. With that change, SDC began to offer its services to all the armed forces of the United States of America, and to those of other nations as well. SDC also began to offer its services to all agencies of federal, state and local government. An example is the police dispatching system SDC created for the City of Los Angeles, CA. These services were also offered to other companies with SDC acting in the role of subcontractor to a prime contractor.

Around 1980, the board of directors of SDC sold the company to Burroughs Corp. Burroughs later merged with UNIVAC. Thus, SDC sank without a trace. Sic transit gloria mundi