7 Jan
2017
7 Jan
'17
8:44 a.m.
On Jan 6, 2017, at 9:46 PM, Rick Bensene <rickb at
bensene.com> wrote:
...
The machine was made by Minnesota Mining and Manufacturing (aka 3M Corporation). Today,
there seems to be no record that 3M ever was in the computer business. But...it was.
Not a drum computer but another example of a company not known for computers that
nevertheless built one: Goodyear. A supercomputer called STARAN, a very odd architecture.
Actually based on an earlier one built at Sanders Associates (a defense contractor)
invented by a friend of ours, William Shooman.
The Computer Museum, back when it was at Digital in their Marlboro, MA building, had
pieces of the STARAN.
paul