Artifact Details

Title

Thinking Machines the 2500 MFlops/2500 Mips CM-2

Catalog Number

102630798

Type

Still Image

Description

Black and white. Thinking Machines on display. Verso: typed paragraph was attached with tape on the back, it read: "The 2500 MFlops/2500 Mips CM-2 is the newest member of the Connection Machines family of data parallel computers. The five-foot cube houses the system's 64,000 processors. The Data Vault mass storage system uses dozens of small disck drives to provide very rapid access to 10 Gbytes of data. Connection Machine systems are currently installed in major corporations, government laboratories, and universities."

Identifying Numbers

Other number P3192

Dimensions

5 x 7 in.

Format

Photographic print

Category

Publicity photograph

Credit

Courtesy of Gwen Bell

Lot Number

X7413.2015