It entered the market in 1967 through acquisition of Decision Control Inc. (DCI) in Newport Beach, California.
[2][3][4] The DCI 1966 DATA/620 was a parallel, binary 16-bit general-purpose digital computer with magnetic-core memory expandable to 32,768 words.
A basic machine cycle took 1.8 microseconds, and the core memory read time was 700 nanoseconds.
These models used a hardware front panel console that allowed starting and stopping the machine, examining memory and registers and changing memory or registers with front-panel switches.
[9] Varian V72 computer systems were installed at Bruce Nuclear Generating Station on the eastern shore of Lake Huron in Ontario, Canada, as the digital control computer system that monitors and controls the major reactor and power plant functions.