Cogar 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, New York-based multimillion-dollar business. His most successful invention was 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. ==Disappearance==