Editing Control Data Corporation (section)

==Peripheral Systems Group==
Control Data Corporation's '''Peripheral Systems Group''' was both a hardware and a software development unit that functioned in the 1970s<ref>1973 - "newly reorganized:" {{cite news |newspaper=Computerworld 
|date=May 23, 1973  |page=28 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=0kr0uyf4B3cC 
|title=Peripherals Systems}}</ref><ref>1977 - expanding/seeking programmers. {{cite news
|newspaper=Computerworld|title=Programming career opportunities (Job Advertisement)|url=https://archive.org/details/sim_computerworld_1977-10-24_11_43/page/77/mode/2up|date=October 24, 1977  |page=77}}</ref><ref>1978: makes it clear that CDC is hiring IBM mainframe systems programming talent. {{cite news |newspaper=Computerworld  |date=April 17, 1978  |page=90
|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=VX6vUZNX0QUC|title=Computerworld }}</ref> and 1980s.<ref name=IBsys>{{cite news
|newspaper=Computerworld  |date=November 1, 1982  |page=48 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=OrmcqtZUTMoC|title=Computerworld }}</ref>

Their services including development and marketing of IBM-oriented (operating) systems software.<ref name=IBsys/> One of the Peripheral Systems Group's software products was named CUPID, "Control Data's Program for Unlike Data Set Concatenation."<ref>{{cite book
|title=CDC CUPID Software Package: Control Data's Program for Unlike Data Set Concatenation (General Information and Reference Manual's Manual ID: 60465820, Rev. A) |date=1982}}</ref> Its focus was for customers of IBM's MVS operating system, and the intended audience was systems programmers. The product's General Information and Reference Manual included SysGen-like options and information about internal
user-accessible control blocks.<ref>Chapter 2, pages 2-1 thru 2-7.</ref>