Enormous dimensions, complicated military calculations, and thousands of vacuum tubes—this was the early supercomputer.

Back in 1956, Lawrence Livermore had approached both IBM and Univac, requesting bids for the UNIVAC LARC contract. But shortly before IBM delivered their proposal, a team of project engineers ...

And for decades Minnesota was the global epicenter of computing as birthplace of the supercomputer and home to Univac, Control Data, IBM Rochester, and Honeywell. Produced in partnership with MHTA ...