George Cogar
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George R. Cogar (born 1932) was the head of the Univac 1004 electronic design team code named the "bumblebee project" and then later the "barn project", co-founder of Mohawk Data Sciences Corporation where he invented the Data Recorder which was introduced in 1965 and eliminated the need for punch cards by direct coding on tape [1] [2] [3]. He was also the founder of the Cogar Corporation where he invented the intelligent terminal an early forerunner of the modern personal computer which he called the Cogar C4 or Cogar 4 [4]. The Cogar 4 became the Singer 1500 after Singer Business Machines acquired Cogar Corporation and then in 1976 ICL acquired Singer Business Machines then changing the name of the computer to the ICL 1500 [5] [6].
September 2, 1983 - Cogar was last seen when a private plane, a Britten Norman Islander, went down somewhere in British Columbia, Canada [7].
George's grandson Jason Tallman recently started a website www.georgecogar.com that will contain more detailed information about him and his accomplishments
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[edit] Mohawk Data Sciences Corporation
[edit] Cogar Corporation
[edit] Foundations
Cogar Foundation
Cogar and his wife Ann established the Cogar Foundation for the express purpose of awarding grants and scholarships to students of Herkimer County. [8]
[edit] Patents
3,166,715 Asynchronous Self Controlled Shift Register [9]
3,261,003 TAPE ERROR INDICATION APPARATUS [10]
3,510,680 ASYNCHRONOUS SHIFT REGISTER WITH DATA CONTROL GATING THEREFOR [11]
3,550,103 Reverse Write and Forward Verify Read of a Variable Length Data Record [12]
3,794,980 APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING SEQUENTIAL EXECUTION OF INSTRUCTIONS AND NESTING OF SUBROUTINES IN A DATA PROCESSOR [13]
4,365,742 Heating System [14]
4,609,613 Permanent reproductions and formation method therefor [15]
3,410,312 Fluid Shift Flip-Flop 3,410,312
3,188,621 DISPLAY PANELS WITH SELECTABLE INDICATORS 3,188,621
3,239,809 Skew Correction Buffer [16]
3,426,415 Printed Circuit Assembly Apparatus [17]
3,283,255 Phase Modulation System For Reading Particular Information [18]
3,282,205 PRINT CONTROL MEANS FOR HIGH SPEED PRINTER WITH TRAVELING PRINT BAR [19]
3,310,660 ASYNCHRONOUS COUNTING DEVICES [20]
3,483,523 DATA RECORDING AND VERIFYING MACHINE [21]
3,807,614 BACKSPACE MECHANISM FOR A TAPE HANDLING APPARATUS FOR A DATA RECORDER [22]
3,193,697 SYNCHRONIZED SINGLE PULSER [23]
3,585,619 MAGNETIC TAPE READOUT SYSTEM WITH MEANS TO GENERATE ARTIFICIAL SIGNALS [24]
3,578,257 TAPE HANDLING APPARATUS FOR DATA RECORDER [25]
3,555,306 KEYBOARD SPROCKET CIRCUIT [26]
3,624,838 ADDRESS COUNTER STAGE CIRCUITRY [27]
