Edson de Castro (born 1938) [1] is a computer engineer and businessman, perhaps best known for designing the Data General Nova series of computers. [2]
De Castro 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. He also was the project manager in charge of developing the PDP-8 mini computer at Digital Equipment Corporation, [3] before leaving to form Data General Corporation. [3] As CEO of Data General, he appeared in Tracy Kidder's book The Soul of a New Machine.
DeCastro married Jean DeCastro in Norwich, Connecticut, in 1963. Jean was a school teacher and Edson worked at Digital Equipment. They divorced in 1980. [4]