How supercomputers paved the way for laptops and chatbots
Enormous dimensions, complicated military calculations, and thousands of vacuum tubes—this was the early supercomputer.
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UNIVAC I
Over 40 systems were sold. Comprising some 5,000 vacuum tubes and weighing nearly eight tons, the memory in the UNIVAC I was made of mercury-filled acoustic delay lines that held 1,000 12-digit ...