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- OBJECT TYPE
- SUPER/MAIN FRAME/INTEGRATED CIRCUIT
- DATE
- 1983
- ARTIFACT NUMBER
- 1989.0056.001
- MANUFACTURER
- Cray Research Inc.
- MODEL
- 1S
- LOCATION
- Chippewa Falls, Wisconsin, United States of America
More Information
General Information
- Serial #
- 56
- Part Number
- 1
- Total Parts
- 9
- AKA
- N/A
- Patents
- N/A
- General Description
- METAL FRAME, CASING, & PARTS/ SYNTHETIC PARTS/ SIMULATED LEATHER SEAT COVERS.
Dimensions
Note: These reflect the general size for storage and are not necessarily representative of the object's true dimensions.
- Length
- N/A
- Width
- 140.0 cm
- Height
- 195.0 cm
- Thickness
- N/A
- Weight
- N/A
- Diameter
- N/A
- Volume
- N/A
Lexicon
- Group
- Meteorology
- Category
- Miscellaneous
- Sub-Category
- N/A
Manufacturer
- AKA
- Cray
- Country
- United States of America
- State/Province
- Wisconsin
- City
- Chippewa Falls
Context
- Country
- Canada
- State/Province
- Quebec
- Period
- 1983 TO 1989
- Canada
-
USED BY AES FOR FORECASTING WEATHER IN CANADA, FIRST COMPUTER OF ITS KIND IN CANADA. - Function
-
HIGH SPEED, HIGH POWER COMPUTER USED SPECIFICALLY TO PROCESS METEOROLOGICAL DATA BY ATMOSPHERIC ENVIRONMENT SERVICES OF ENVIRONMENT CANADA, DORVAL, QUE. - Technical
-
THIS WAS WORLD'S FASTEST COMPUTER AT TIME OF INSTALLATION; IT WAS USED BY AES TO PROCESS LARGE AMOUNTS OF DATA IN REAL TIME./ CRAY 1S APPEARED IN 1976 & WAS FIRST COMMERCIALLY SUCCESSFUL VECTOR PROCESSOR, DOMINATING SUPERCOMPUTER MARKET. FROM 1976 TO 1982. IT WAS SUPERCEDED BY CRAY RESEARCH'S X-MP SUPER COMPUTER IN 1982. - Area Notes
-
Unknown
Details
- Markings
- .1 DECAL READING 'CRAY RESEACH, INC. Chippewa Falls, WI 54729 Made in USA/ CRAY-1 Mainframe/ Model 1S 12 COL/ Part No. 1052-5400 Serial No. 56' WITH TECHNICAL & PATENT INFO. (SEE SUPP. INFO.)
- Missing
- MOST OF INTERNAL CIRCUITRY REMOVED (REUSEABLE) EXCEPT FOR ONE UNIT THAT CAN BE DISPLAYED WITH PLEXIGLASS COVER. COOLING COMPRESSORS, POWER SUPPLIES, DISC STORAGE DEVICES & FRONT END COMPUTER WERE NOT SUPPLIED.
- Finish
- BRUSHED, BLACK PAINTED, GREY PAINTED METAL/ MULTICOLOURED SYNTHETIC/ BROWN SEAT COVERS.
- Decoration
- N/A
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Cray Research Inc., Computer, circa 1983, Artifact no. 1989.0056, Ingenium – Canada’s Museums of Science and Innovation, http://collections.ingeniumcanada.org/en/id/1989.0056.001/
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