The ETA10 is a vector supercomputer designed, manufactured, and marketed by ETA Systems, a spin-off division of Control Data Corporation. The ETA10 was an evolution of the CDC Cyber 205, which can tra
An ETA10 displayed at the Computer History Museum
The CDC 8600 was the last of Seymour Cray's supercomputer designs while he worked for Control Data Corporation. As the natural successor to the CDC 6600 and CDC 7600, the 8600 was intended to be about
The CDC 8600, likely a mock-up made for promotional purposes. The ring of "benches" around the outside contains the power supplies—a design element that Cray re-used on the Cray-1. Each of the pie-wedges of the computer can be removed for servicing, and heat exhausts through the central core.