CDC 6600 installation
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- Details
- Description
- Date
- 1965 ca.
- Credit Line
- Courtesy of Control Data Corporation
- Copyright Owner
- © Control Data Corporation
- Keywords
- International Business Machines Corporation (IBM); IBM Project Stretch; CDC 6600 (Computer); Watson, Thomas J.; Control Data Corporation
- Object ID
- 102627359
The 6600 had 400,000 transistors and more than 100 miles of wiring. In addition to a blazingly fast floating-point processor, it had 10 “peripheral processors” that did housekeeping and input/output tasks at the same time.
