Author Charles Severance provides an audio recording of his Computing Conversations column in which he describes how Living Computers: Museum + Lab engineers salvaged one of the world's first supercomputers. From Computer's April 2017 issue: www.computer.org/csdl/mags/co/2017/04/index.html. Visit Computer: www.computer.org/computer.

Resurrecting the CDC 6500 Supercomputer

Much of modern-day computing can be traced to innovations starting in the 1940s - never before has a major field emerged and matured in a single generation. To better understand computing's potential future directions, it's important to know our past and how we arrived at our current state. This series is dedicated to meeting and talking to people who range from the early pioneers to current visionaries.

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Resurrecting the CDC 6500 Supercomputer

Resurrecting the CDC 6500 Supercomputer