Mohawk Data Sciences

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.

Cogar was last seen September 2, 1983, when a private plane, a Britten-Norman Islander, went down somewhere in British Columbia, Canada.

Cogar and his wife Ann established the Cogar Foundation for the express purpose of awarding grants and scholarships to students of Herkimer County.

3,166,715 Asynchronous Self Controlled Shift Register [1]
3,261,003 TAPE ERROR INDICATION APPARATUS [2]
3,510,680 ASYNCHRONOUS SHIFT REGISTER WITH DATA CONTROL GATING THEREFOR [3]
3,550,103 Reverse Write and Forward Verify Read of a Variable Length Data Record [4]
3,794,980 APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING SEQUENTIAL EXECUTION OF INSTRUCTIONS AND NESTING OF SUBROUTINES IN A DATA PROCESSOR [5]
4,365,742 Heating System [6]
4,609,613 Permanent reproductions and formation method therefor [7]
3,410,312 Fluid Shift Flip-Flop 3,410,312

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