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The IBM 7030, aka Stretch

And its advanced random access disk drives provided unrivaled data storage and retrieval speed. The 7030 stretched the limits of computer design to such an ...

IBM 7030 Stretch - Wikipedia

The IBM 7030, also known as Stretch, was IBM's first transistorized supercomputer. It was the fastest computer in the world from 1961 until the first CDC ...

Organization Sketch of IBM Stretch -- Mark Smotherman

STRETCH (the IBM 7030) is the largest, fastest, operating general purpose computer. It combines fixed word length arithmetic for performing floating point ...

IBM STRETCH: A Technology Link Between Yesterday & Tomorrow

[1981] IBM's STRETCH program for the Government's Los Alamos lab, later named the IBM 7030 when sold commercially, was IBM's audacious ...

IBM Stretches its Capabilities - CHM Revolution

IBM Stretches its CapabilitiesAim high. Outrun the competition. That was the inspiration behind IBM's “Stretch” (Model 7030). Because the 7030 didn't meet ...

IBM 7030 Stretch - Computer History Wiki - gunkies.org

A ground-breaking and influential mainframe from IBM, arguably the first supercomputer. It was the fastest computer in the world from 1961 until the advent of ...

IBM Stretch (aka IBM 7030 Data Processing System) - Brouhaha.com

IBM began design studies, and starting in November of 1955, a series of "Stretch Memos" proposed the development of a computer with performance "100 to 200 ...

Tech Time Warp of the Week: IBM STRETCH, 1961 - WIRED

Today, the NSA has PRISM. In the 1960s, it had STRETCH. Also known as the IBM 7030, STRETCH was the supercomputer of its day, ...

7030 Engineering Console (IBM Stretch) | 102716145

The IBM 7030, or Stretch, was the result of an intensive R&D project started at IBM in 1955. The goal: build a super-computer 100 to 200 times as powerful as ...

The IBM Stretch

IBM did a deal with Los Alamos for a similar machine about two years later than the LARC contract. IBM called their machine “Stretch” or more formally the “IBM ...

Tech Milestone: The End of IBM's Stretch Mainframe

Tech Milestone: The End of IBM's Stretch Mainframe. On this day in 1980, a piece of tech history quietly came to an end as the last IBM 7030 “ ...

IBM 7030 - "Stretch

IBM starts 7030 project (known as STRETCH), with the goal of producing a machine with 100 times the performance of the IBM 704.

IBM 7030 | supercomputer - Britannica

Other articles where IBM 7030 is discussed: Fred Brooks: …where he worked on the IBM 7030 (known as Stretch), a supercomputer ordered by the U.S. National ...

Fifty years later, IBM's inventors celebrate the 'Stretch' - CNET

Judged a failure at the time, Big Blue's 7030 supercomputer left a rich, albeit indirect legacy for the rest of the computer industry.

IBM 7950 Harvest - Wikipedia

The IBM 7950, also known as Harvest, was a one-of-a-kind adjunct to the Stretch computer which was installed at the United States National Security Agency ...

Ibm Stretch - C2 wiki

Ibm Stretch. I can't contribute much here. What I know I found out from my mentor, Albert E Adams who was a programmer for this beast. The IBM 7030 was a ...

Whatever Happened to the IBM “Stretch” Computer?

A project that designed and built the world's fastest and most technically advanced computer: the Stretch supercomputer.

How many FLOPS did the IBM 7030 Stretch have? : r/computerscience

Have many FLOPS did the vintage IBM 7030 Stretch have?

The IBM 7030: Stretch - SpringerLink

In 1956 the Atomic Energy Commission contracted with IBM to build a computer system, the IBM 7030, for the Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory.

About: IBM 7030 Stretch - DBpedia

Originally designed to meet a requirement formulated by Edward Teller at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, the first example was delivered to Los Alamos ...