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The group of mainframe computer competitors to IBM in the 1970s became known as the BUNCH: Burroughs, UNIVAC, NCR, Control Data Corporation, and Honeywell. These companies were grouped together because the market share of IBM was much higher than all of its competitors put together.
During the 1960s, IBM and these five computer manufacturers, along with RCA and General Electric, had been known as “IBM and the Seven Dwarfs.” The description of IBM’s competitors changed after GE’s 1970 sale of its computer business to Honeywell and RCA’s 1971 sale of its computer business to Sperry, leaving only five “dwarfs”. Fortunately, their initials lent themselves to a new acronym, BUNCH.
