[PAR] [TLE] George Cogar [SEP] George R. Cogar (born 1932) was the head of the UNIVAC 1004 electronic design team code named the "bumblebee project", and later the "barn project", and co-founder of Mohawk Data Sciences Corporation, a Herkimer, N. Y.-based multimillion-dollar business built largely on his invention of the Data Recorder magnetic tape encoder, which was introduced in 1965 and eliminated the need for keypunches and punched cards by direct encoding on tape.  He also founded the Cogar Corporation, where he built an intelligent terminal—an early forerunner of the modern personal computer—which he called the Cogar System 4 or Cogar 4.  The Cogar 4 became the Singer 1500 after Singer Business Machines acquired Cogar Corporation.  In 1976 International Computers Limited (ICL) acquired Singer Business Machines, changing the name of the computer to the ICL 1500. [PAR] [TLE] Singer Corporation [SEP] Singer Corporation is an American manufacturer of sewing machines, first established as I. M. Singer & Co. in 1851 by Isaac Merritt Singer with New York lawyer Edward Clark.  Best known for its sewing machines, it was renamed Singer Manufacturing Company in 1865, then The Singer Company in 1963.  It is based in La Vergne, Tennessee near Nashville.  Its first large factory for mass production was built in Elizabeth, New Jersey in 1863.
[PAR] [TLE] George Cogar [ SEP ] George R. Cogar ( born 1932 ) was the head of the UNIVAC 1004 electronic design team code named the " bumblebee project " , and later the " barn project " , and co - founder of Mohawk Data Sciences Corporation , a Herkimer , N. Y.-based multimillion - dollar business built largely on his invention of the Data Recorder magnetic tape encoder , which was introduced in 1965 and eliminated the need for keypunches and punched cards by direct encoding on tape . He also founded the Cogar Corporation , where he built an intelligent terminal — an early forerunner of the modern personal computer — which he called the Cogar System 4 or Cogar 4 . The Cogar 4 became the Singer 1500 after Singer Business Machines acquired Cogar Corporation . In 1976 International Computers Limited ( ICL ) acquired Singer Business Machines , changing the name of the computer to the ICL 1500 . [PAR] [TLE] Singer Corporation [ SEP ] Singer Corporation is an American manufacturer of sewing machines , first established as I. M. Singer & Co. in 1851 by Isaac Merritt Singer with New York lawyer Edward Clark . Best known for its sewing machines , it was renamed Singer Manufacturing Company in 1865 , then The Singer Company in 1963 . It is based in La Vergne , Tennessee near Nashville . Its first large factory for mass production was built in Elizabeth , New Jersey in 1863 .
When was the company that acquired Cogar Corporation founded?
When was the company that acquired Cogar Corporation founded ?
1851
1851