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Supercomputer

Recorded year1964

Seymour Cray's CDC 6600, packed with silicon transistors and cooled by Freon, runs about ten times faster than any rival, the first supercomputer.

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Dataset updated 2026-10-18. This individual record has not been separately re-reviewed.