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Thomas Watson Jr.'s 1963 memo on the CDC 6600 resurfaces●Watson Jr. memo about CDC 6600 (1963)Yhn Science Biology6125 min ago
A 1963 internal memo by IBM president Thomas Watson Jr. about Control Data Corporation's CDC 6600, then the world's fastest computer, is drawing attention via the Computer History Museum's archive. In the memo Watson urged IBM engineers to respond to CDC and Seymour Cray's advance. Readers are sharing reflections on early supercomputing history and IBM's competitive response.