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Seymour Cray Dead

Seymour Cray
KindPerson
Born1925
Died1996
StatusDead

The supercomputer � CDC 6600, 7600, Cray-1, Cray-2. Designed with paper, pencil, and an aversion to committees.

Designed the CDC 6600 (1964) — the first supercomputer, 'the world's fastest computer' for five years — then the Cray-1, the machine that defined supercomputing.\n\n'He always worked alone with a pad of graph paper'; the Cray look — the couch around the machine — is his design.