Designed and built by IBM for the NSA, the Harvest Computer was the main Cryptographic Processor in Operation during the Cold War (running from 1962 to 1976) #Cryptography #Intelligence #OldComputing spectrum.ieee.org/cold-war-cod...
Was This Cold War NSA Computer Secretly the World’s Fastest Machine?
It ran its jobs 200 times as fast as any other computer on Earth
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September 25, 2026 at 7:10 PM
Designed and built by IBM for the NSA, the Harvest Computer was the main Cryptographic Processor in Operation during the Cold War (running from 1962 to 1976) #Cryptography #Intelligence #OldComputing spectrum.ieee.org/cold-war-cod...