Artifact Details

Title

Integrated circuit for the ILLIAC IV

Catalog Number

102652198

Type

Still Image

Description

This is a black and white negative of an integrated circuit for the ILLIAC IV computer. Written on verso side of image in pencil is "#1500" and "4100". Written on the green post it note is "13". Parallel Processing appeared in the huge ILLIAC IV, the first computer to abandon the classic one-step-at-a-time scheme of John von Neumann. ILLIAC IV had sixty-four processors, each with its own memory, all operating simultaneously on separate parts of one problem. Designed at the University of Illinois and built by Burroughs, the computer took six years to complete at a cost of $40 million. It was the fastest machine then in use, but ahead of its time. Plagued by technical ills and very difficult to program, ILLIAC IV was one of a kind.

Publisher

Illinois, University of (Urbana-Champaign)

Identifying Numbers

Other number 1546

Dimensions

8 x 10 in.

Format

Negative

Category

Film negative

Subject

Illiac IV (Computer); Integrated circuits; Burroughs Corporation; Computers--History; Computer industry--History

Credit

Courtesy of Gwen Bell

Lot Number

X7413.2015
 

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