IBM 7030 Console, 1961
The console of the Lab's IBM 7030 which was delivered to Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in March 1961. The 7030 was IBM's response to the LARC (Livermore Advanced Research Computer) built by Remington Rand. It provided the largest memory for any machine then in use at the Laboratory. It used 72 bit words of which the last 8 bits were for Error Correction and Control. he IBM 7030, also known as Stretch, was IBM's first transistorized supercomputer. Its failure to meet its aggressive performance estimates forced its price to be dropped from $ million to only $ million and its withdrawal from sales to customers beyond those having already negotiated contracts. Even though the 7030 was much slower than expected, it was the fastest computer in the world from 1961 until the first CDC 6600 became operational in 1964. Stretch is considered to be one of the biggest project management failures in IT history. No photographer credited, dated 1961.
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