CDC 3600, LLNL, 1962
In May 1962, the first Control Data Corporation CDC 3600 was installed at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. The 3600 was a step in a plan for an orderly transition to the CDC 6600. The CDC 3600 had 32,700 48-bit words of memory and supported the FORTRAN 66 compiler and storage cycle times ranging from microseconds to .8 microseconds. Its circuitry was designed by Seymour Cray, who went on create his own line of Cray computers. No photographer credited, dated 1962.
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