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Thomas Watson Jr.'s 1963 memo on the CDC 6600 resurfaces●Watson Jr. memo about CDC 6600 (1963)Yhn Science Biology6232 min ago
A 1963 internal memo from IBM chief executive Thomas Watson Jr. about Control Data Corporation's CDC 6600 is drawing attention. The 6600, designed by Seymour Cray, outperformed IBM's fastest machines at the time, and Watson's memo candidly acknowledged that Control Data had beaten IBM's far larger team to the world's fastest computer. The document highlights early supercomputing history and Cray's legendary engineering.
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Thomas 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 #Mmastodon Technology45 d ago
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.