September 1964
CDC 6600 is introduced

Designed by Seymour Cray and James E. Thornton, the CDC 6600 is considered to be the world's first successful supercomputer. Between 1964 and 1969 the CDC 6600 was the world's fastest computer, with performance of up to three megaFLOPS.

The first machine was delivered to Lawrence Livermore National Laboratories in September 1964.

Related information:

• Centre for Computing History: Seymour Cray
• Computer History Museum: CDC 6600

Image:

• CDC 6600 Super Computer made by Control Data Limited, United States, 1968.
  Credit: Science Museum Group Collection, CC BY-NC-SA 4.0

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Supercomputer pioneer Seymour Cray is born