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<!--base/dist-->The origins of Harris Computer Systems began in 1967 in [[Fort Lauderdale, Florida]], when [[Datacraft Corporation]] was founded.<ref name="sent-hawkish"/> It would specialize in minicomputers for the scientific engineering market and for educational use.<ref name="sent-hawkish"/>

The best known of these were the DC-6024 line, which were based on a [[24-bit computing]] architecture and debuted in 1969.<ref name="sigarch"/> Successive models were denoted with names such as DC-6024/1 and DC-6024/4, which became known as "Slash 1", "Slash 4", and so forth.<ref name="sigarch">{{cite journal | url=https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/48675.48680 | date= June 1988 | title= Evolution of the Harris H-series computers and speculations on their future | author-first= Chuck | author-last=Crawford | journal = ACM SIGARCH Computer Architecture News |volume=16 | issue =3 | pages= 33&ndash;39 | doi=10.1145/48675.48680 | s2cid= 32635502 | doi-access= free }}</ref> The Slash 1 made cost-effective use of hardware for floating-point operations and quickly became popular as alternatives to computers from [[Systems Engineering Laboratories]].<ref name="sigarch"/>

== Harris Computer Systems Division ==

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By the late 1980s/early 1990s, the major product of Harris Computer Systems Division was the Night Hawk series of real-time systems.<ref name="iw-1992"/><ref name="njbiz"/>

In 1989, the first Night Hawk systems based on the [[Motorola 88000]] processor line came out. The systems were mainly targeted for the real-time ___domain, including for [[aerospace simulation]], [[signal processing]], and [[Command and control|C³I]] uses.<ref name="ci-88000">{{cite news | url=https://techmonitor.ai/technology/harris_launches_its_first_88000_based_night_hawks | title=Harris Launches Its First 88000-Based Night Hawks | work=[[Computergram International]] | date=December 18, 1989 }}</ref> Night Hawk models included the NH-1200, NH-3400, NH-4400, NH-4800, and NH-5800.<ref name="ajn-sep93"/>

Then in 1992, Harris announced it was switching to the [[PowerPC]] architecture.<ref name="iw-1992"/>

The Harris Computer Systems Division also made a [[network firewall]] product, that they sold to their governmental agency customers.<ref name="signals-1994"/>

E. Courtney "Corky" Siegel was general manager of the division.<ref name="iw-1992">{{cite news | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=KlEEAAAAMBAJ&q=%22Harris+Computer+Systems%22+1994&pg=PA46 | title=Harris to use PowerPC in Night Hawks | author-first=Tom | author-last=Quinlan | magazine=InfoWorld | date=November 9, 1992 | page=46}}</ref>

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