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IBM Built NSA's Secret Harvest Code Breaker
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IBM built the Harvest (IBM 7950) for the NSA, running jobs 200 times faster than any contemporary computer. It paired the Stretch mainframe with a streaming coprocessor and the Tractor automated tape library, operating from 1962 through the Vietnam War.
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