Computer History: Control Data CDC 6600 Supercomputer (Naval Weather Global tracking Climate) 1972

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Computer History: A brief look at the CDC 6600 Supercomputer, from Control Data Corporation. This vintage 1972, color Navy film includes rare footage of the CDC 6600 and the U.S. Naval Weather Service Command procedures for tracking and reporting weather conditions from satellite data and ground data to ships on a global computerized network. Various naval equipment is shown including radio teletype, radar, magnetic tape units, computer consoles, plotters, scanners, and more. {This is an 8 minute excerpt from the film “The Story of a Storm” produced for the U.S. Navy in 1972.}
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CDC 6600 designed by Seymour Cray and James Thornton was the fastest computer in the world from 1964 to 1969, when it was superseded by the CDC 7600.

CDC 6600 Supercomputer Installations:
In addition to the Navy Computing Center, other notable CDC 6600 installations included:
- Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) (Livermore, CA)
- Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences (CIMS) (NY)
- European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) (Geneva)
- Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL) (California)
About 100 CDC 6600 computers were eventually sold.
Cost was about $6 million to $10 million dollars each.

Recommended Resources:
History and background on the CDC 6600
http://ed-thelen.org/comp-hist/vs-cdc-6600.html

Tour w/Steve Wozniac at the Computer History Museum, Mountain View, California
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hsB8Hxnb52o

1950-1983 Lawrence Livermore National Labs (computer history, UNIVAC LARC, IBM, CDC 6600, CRAY, etc.) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lmk3Y4uHUro&t=644s

Powering up the CDC 6600 at the Living Computer Museum
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UMguik41FjY

TECH STORIES: Life & Work of Seymour Cray
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=htWqxABAoRE
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