On June 21, 1981, IBM retired its “STRETCH” 7030 computer, a machine considered a failure by some but that brought about tremendous innovation. The 7030 premiered in 1961, performing at speeds ...
Today, the NSA has PRISM. In the 1960s, it had STRETCH. Also known as the IBM 7030, STRETCH was the supercomputer of its day, running at speeds roughly 25 times faster than typical machines. It made ...
Expected usefulness of the IBM 7030 Stretch computer for business data processing was described at the 16th National Meeting of the Association for Computing Machinery in Los Angeles, Sept. 5-8.
The first transistorized computer made by IBM was the IBM 7030 or STRETCH. The first of these was installed at Los Alamos in 1961. The following year, a customized version of the STRETCH known as the ...
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