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Still, of all the vintage computer hardware I've ever seen, my absolute favorite is the CDC Cyber 6600.

<nitpicking>Just 'CDC 6600', I think. 'Cyber' series derived from it was 'Cyber 170'. (Wikipedia agrees)</nitpicking>

Ah, I remember paying some $6k for their Wren-VI 300MB ESDI full (or was it half?) hight 5-1/4" disk (It was in days after S. Cray, after Cyber, even after ETA, somewhere in very late 80's)

It's interesting that vector processors and corresponding instructions that made those computers so fast (relatively speaking) are returning (now as a part of main CPU or graphics cards). Although the intended use is different (multimedia), matrix operation is still just a matrix operation...
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