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In the 1960s, CSC provided software programming services to major computer manufacturers like [[IBM]] and [[Honeywell]] and secured their first contracts for the U.S. public sector with [[NASA]] (among others).<ref name=":0" /> | In the 1960s, CSC provided software programming services to major computer manufacturers like [[IBM]] and [[Honeywell]] and secured their first contracts for the U.S. public sector with [[NASA]] (among others).<ref name=":0" /> | ||
By 1963, CSC became the largest software company in the United States and the first software company to be listed on the [[American Stock Exchange]].<ref name="Computing Curriculum">{{cite web | url=http://www.hofstra.edu/pdf/comphist_9812tla5.pdf | title=History in the Computing Curriculum | access-date=November 21, 2014}}</ref> By the end of 1968, CSC was listed on the [[New York Stock Exchange]] and had operations in [[Canada]], [[India]], the | By 1963, CSC became the largest software company in the United States and the first software company to be listed on the [[American Stock Exchange]].<ref name="Computing Curriculum">{{cite web | url=http://www.hofstra.edu/pdf/comphist_9812tla5.pdf | title=History in the Computing Curriculum | access-date=November 21, 2014}}</ref> By the end of 1968, CSC was listed on the [[New York Stock Exchange]] and had operations in [[Canada]], [[India]], the United Kingdom, [[Germany]], [[Spain]], [[Italy]], [[Brazil]], and the [[Netherlands]]. | ||
In 1967, CSC set up Computicket Corp. to compete in the fledgling electronic ticket market competing with [[Ticketron]] but lost $13 million and discontinued the service in 1970.<ref>{{cite magazine|magazine=[[Variety (magazine)|Variety]]|date=April 8, 1970|page=117|last=Arneel|first=Gene|title=Computicket Folds With $13-Mil Loss, But Ticketron Still Punching Away}}</ref> | In 1967, CSC set up Computicket Corp. to compete in the fledgling electronic ticket market competing with [[Ticketron]] but lost $13 million and discontinued the service in 1970.<ref>{{cite magazine|magazine=[[Variety (magazine)|Variety]]|date=April 8, 1970|page=117|last=Arneel|first=Gene|title=Computicket Folds With $13-Mil Loss, But Ticketron Still Punching Away}}</ref> | ||