The first beta site was installed at Carleton University in Ottawa Canada in June 1979, and three other sites were installed before the end of 1979. LADC reported administratively to the Honeywell computer group in Phoenix, a facility, which Honeywell had acquired from General Electric.
The new operating system was to be called CP-6. Century Blvd in Los Angeles, which became known as the Los Angeles Development Center (LADC). Organized by Hank Hoagland and Shel Klee, the team was housed at an old Xerox marketing office at 5250 W.
Honeywell employed an initial team of 60 programmers from the Xerox CP-V development team, and added another 30 programmers plus management and staff. The CP-6 system including operating system and program products was developed, beginning in 1976, by Honeywell to attract Xerox CP-V users (about 750 Sigma users) to buy and use Honeywell equipment. In 1970 it had bought the computer business of General Electric. In the early 1960s, Honeywell had built and sold a large number of H200 machines, together with software. Following that all revenue went to Honeywell. Revenues were shared 60/40 Xerox until CP-6 General Release, and 60/40 Honeywell for three years thereafter. Xerox made available all the spare equipment and supplies and the warehouses containing them. In a deal put together by Harry Sweatt, Honeywell purchased Xerox Data Systems, and took on the Xerox sales and field computer support staff to provide field service support to the existing customer base. In 1975, Xerox decided to sell the computer business which it had purchased from Scientific Data Systems in 1969.