COMPUTER HISTORY AND EVOLUTION
DEVELOPMENT OF COMPUTERS
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Los Angeles National Laboratory
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Los Alamos National Laboratory
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Bletchley Park
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The CIA
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Detailed explanation-1: -The National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) was the first official customer of Cray Research in 1977, paying US$8.86 million ($7.9 million plus $1 million for the disks) for serial number 3. The NCAR machine was decommissioned in 1989.
Detailed explanation-2: -Param 8000 is considered as India’s first supercomputer. A supercomputer is a computer with a high level of performance as compared to a general-purpose computer.
Detailed explanation-3: -The term supercomputer came into use in the early 1960s, when IBM rolled out the IBM 7030 Stretch, and Sperry Rand unveiled the UNIVAC LARC, the first two intentional supercomputers designed to be more powerful than the fastest commercial machines available at the time.
Detailed explanation-4: -The CDC 6600, released in 1964, is sometimes considered the first supercomputer.