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Reminiscences of Project Y and the ACS Project
- IEEE Annals of the History of Computing
- IEEE Computer Society
- Volume 37, Number 3, July-September 2015
- pp. 56-66
- Article
- Additional Information
Brian Randell spent 1964–1966 first at IBM Research working on Project Y and then in the IBM Systems Development Division with the resulting ACS Project—then-secret projects that aimed to build a supercomputer that would be 100 times faster than Stretch. His account of these projects here makes use of a small set of files mainly relating to patent applications.