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world event
Jan 1st - Norway's capital Christiania changes name to Oslo -
Born
Born Sept. 28, 1925, in Chippewa Falls, Wisconsin, Seymour had a fascination with electronics and electrical devices from boyhood. -
world event
Jan 27th - US Senate agrees to join World Court -
world event
Mar 27th - Charlie Chaplin receives France's distinguished Legion of Honor -
world event
Apr 15th - 1st backwards walk across American begins -
world event
Jan 1st - Safety glass in vehicle windscreens becomes mandatory in Great Britain. -
world history
Jan 3rd - 1st missing persons telecast (NYC) -
Gradutation
Following graduation from high school in 1943, he joined the U.S. Army, serving in an infantry communications platoon. -
Arrivil
He arrived in Europe the day after D-Day and saw action in the Battle of the Bulge campaign. Later he served in the Pacific theater in the Philippine Islands. -
world event
Jan 2nd - Radio Orange ends cooperation at Liese-Aktion -
Collage
M.S. Applied Mathematics, University of Minnesota -
CCC Start
Seymour’s passion for building scientific computers led him to help start Control Data Corporation (CDC) in 1957. -
Control Data Corporation (CDC)
Seymour’s passion for building scientific computers led him to help start Control Data Corporation (CDC) in 1957. -
world event
Jan 14th - US Army promoted Elvis Presley to Sergeant -
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Mar 10th - US reconnaissance plane shot down over East Germany -
world event
Mar 6th - Beatles release "Let it Be" in UK -
The signature Cray-1
The signature Cray®-1 vector supercomputer established a world standard in supercomputing when it was unveiled in 1976. Integrated circuits replaced transistors, and the Cray-1 delivered 170 megaflops of processing speed. -
The Cray-2
In 1985 the Cray®-2 computer system moved supercomputing forward yet again, breaking the gigaflops (1,000 megaflops) barrier. -
CCC
In 1989 Seymour left Cray Research to form Cray Computer Corporation (CCC), based in Colorado Springs, Colorado. Here he began work on the Cray®-4. CCC closed its doors in 1995 due to financial pressures. -
The End
Tragically, on Oct. 5, 1996, at the age of 71, Seymour Cray passed away in Colorado Springs from injuries suffered in a car accident two weeks earlier.
