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A 1963 internal memo from IBM chief executive Thomas Watson Jr. about the Control Data Corporation 6600, then the world's fastest computer, is being recirculated via the Computer History Museum's archive. In the memo Watson acknowledged IBM had lost the supercomputer lead to CDC and its designer Seymour Cray, urging employees to respond. Readers are revisiting it as a striking example of candid competitive assessment from a tech giant at the height of the mainframe era.
- 2Thomas Watson Jr.'s 1963 memo on the CDC 6600 resurfaces●Watson Jr. memo about CDC 6600 (1963) https://www.computerhistory.org/revolution/supercomputers/10/33/62 # HackerNews #
A 1963 memo from IBM chief executive Thomas Watson Jr. about Control Data Corporation's CDC 6600 is drawing renewed attention via the Computer History Museum's archive. The document captures IBM's alarm at CDC's supercomputer, then the world's fastest machine, and Watson's candid internal assessment of the competitive threat it posed to IBM's dominance in computing.