Edson de Castro (September 14, 1938 – September 6, 2024) was an American computer engineer and businessman, best known for being a chief founder of Data General and for designing that company's Nova series of computers.
[2][3] He was founder and CEO of Data General Corporation throughout the 1970s, the 1980s and into the 1990s when he was replaced by Ronald L Skates, a former Price Waterhouse Coopers partner.
[4] As CEO of Data General, he appeared in Tracy Kidder's book The Soul of a New Machine.
De Castro married Jean DeCastro in Norwich, Connecticut, in 1963.
Jean was a school teacher and Edson worked at Digital Equipment.