BESM-6 Supercomputer, 1968-1987

Made:
1968-1987 in Russia
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BESM-6 Supercomputer: Registers Cabinet type BRUS with two
Science Museum Group Collection
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BESM-6 Supercomputer: Registers Cabinet type BRUS with two
Science Museum Group Collection
© The Board of Trustees of the Science Museum

BESM-6 Supercomputer: Registers Cabinet type BRUS with two
Science Museum Group Collection
© The Board of Trustees of the Science Museum

BESM-6 Supercomputer: Registers Cabinet type BRUS with two
Science Museum Group Collection
© The Board of Trustees of the Science Museum

BESM-6 Supercomputer: Registers Cabinet type BRUS with two
Science Museum Group Collection
© The Board of Trustees of the Science Museum

BESM-6 Supercomputer: Registers Cabinet type BRUS with two
Science Museum Group Collection
© The Board of Trustees of the Science Museum

BESM-6 Supercomputer
Science Museum Group Collection
© The Board of Trustees of the Science Museum

BESM-6 Supercomputer: Registers Cabinet type BRUS with two
Science Museum Group Collection
© The Board of Trustees of the Science Museum

BESM-6 Supercomputer: Registers Cabinet type BRUS with two
Science Museum Group Collection
© The Board of Trustees of the Science Museum

BESM-6 Supercomputer: Registers Cabinet type BRUS with two
Science Museum Group Collection
© The Board of Trustees of the Science Museum

BESM-6 Supercomputer: Registers Cabinet type BRUS with two
Science Museum Group Collection
© The Board of Trustees of the Science Museum

BESM-6 Supercomputer
Science Museum Group Collection
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BESM-6 Supercomputer, possibly manufactured by Moscow Calculating Analytical Plant Machines, Russia, 1968-1987

The BESM supercomputers were one of the last major Russian computer hardware developments, before they adopted computer architectures from the West. It was also the last machine to be competitively equivalent to a Western computer, the CDC 6600. Translated, the acronym means 'large electronic computing machine'. With its massive console and flashing lights, it was the image of a cold-war computer. More than 350 BESM-6 computers were built. This was one of the last BESM-6 computers to be decommissioned, before being acquired by the Science Museum

Details

Category:
Computing & Data Processing
Object Number:
2014-10
Materials:
metal (unknown), glass, plastic (unidentified) and copper (metal)
type:
mainframe
credit:
Purchased from Real Time Associates

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