Babbage Patch Finds #4: NSA's Harvest

The 1961 IBM Stretch (& far faster Control Data 6600 in '64) are both commonly cited as starts of #Supercomputing

A Special version of Stretch w/ advanced specs for #cryptoanalysis was & given the name #Harvest for National Security Agency #NSA

Few images inside the Triple Fence of #FortMeade, #Maryland NSA are pub dom., this is. Just after delivery of Harvest in 1962. Man & #system #printers etc

#Histodons #cryptography #STS #HCI #HPC from: #NSAHistory

Fuck these guys.
Google on the NSA
https://web.archive.org/web/20170216105208/https://plus.google.com/108799184931623330498/posts/SfYy8xbDWGG

#nsahistory

thnx @DrWhax