CDC 6500
Open panels of the CDC 6500 undergoing restoration at Living Computers: Museum + Labs in Seattle.
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| Developer | Seymour Cray |
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| Manufacturer | Control Data Corporation |
| Product family | CDC 6000 series |
| Type | Supercomputer |
| Release date | 1967 |
| Introductory price | $8 million ~ equivalent to $61,776,824 in 2016 |
| Operating system | SCOPE |
| CPU | Dual 6400 up to 40MHz |
| Memory | 65,000 60-bit words |
| Display | DD60 |
| Weight | 10,000+ Lbs. |
| Predecessor | IBM Stretch |
| Successor | CDC 7600 |
The CDC 6500 is the third supercomputer in the 6000 series manufactured by the Control Data Corporation and designed by supercomputer pioneer Seymour Cray. The first 6500 was announced in 1964 and was delivered in 1967. It is considered to be part of the first generation of supercomputers.
The 6500 features a dual CPU 6400. It is a large-scale, solid-state, general-purpose digital computing system. The 6500 features at least eleven different independent computers - ten of which are peripheral and control processors. Each of the independent computers have a separate memory and can run programs separately from each other and the central processor. Instead of being air-cooled, it has a liquid refrigeration system and each of the three bays of the computer has its own cooling unit.
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