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Front panel of the UNIVAC LARC supercomputer. Credit: U.S. Army (Public Domain) UNIVACs were massive mainframe computers, and the LARC ("Livermore Advanced Research Computer") was specifically ...

A gigantic mainframe like ENIAC ... This Sh*t Is Cray Parallel Processing The first computer generally regarded as a ...

In his most recent article, [Ken Shirriff] takes a break from putting ASICs under a microscope, and instead does the same in a proverbial manner with the word ‘mainframe’. Although ...

It is hard to imagine what a mainframe or supercomputer can do when we all have what amounts to supercomputers on our desks. But if you look at something like IBM’s mainframe Telum chip ...

EAI Pace (TR 48): The EAI Pace is a "desktop computer" that was manufactured and produced in the early 1960’s. Endim 2000: The ENDIM 2000 analog computer was a tube­based design developed and ...