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
BESM-6 Supercomputer: Registers Cabinet type BRUS with two glass doors, control panel and desk; Control Unit type UU with two glass doors, control panel and desk; Arithmetic Unit type AU with two glass doors, control panel and desk; Peripheral Control Cabinet, type UVU with two glass doors, control panel and desk; possibly manufactured by Moscow Calculating Analytical Plant Machines, Russia, 1968-1987