The IBM 7030 'Stretch' was designed for scientific computations, and was the fastest computer in the world until the CDC 6600. That innocent looking typewriter at the front is the front end to a number of technical innovations, including memory interleaving, instruction pipelining, prefetch and decoding and the 8-bit byte.
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