September 28, 1925 born in Chippewa Falls, Wisconsin
1950 bachelor of science, electrical engineering, University of Minnesota
1951 master of science, applied mathematics, University of Minnesota
1950 joins Engineering Research Associates in St.Paul, Minnesota
1954 Designs Control System of Atlas II (-> ERA 1103, Univac 1103
A)
UNIVAC
1103A Reference Manual
1956 Designs NTDS (Navy Tactical Data System) Computer
1957 joins Control Data Corporation
1959 Control Data 1604 / 160 (-> CDC 3000 line)
1964 Control Data 6600 (-> CDC 6000 / Cyber 70/170/180 line)
1968 Control Data 7600
1972 Control Data 8600 abandoned
1972 founds Cray Research, Inc.
1976 Cray-1(pdf,1.2
MB) (-> Cray XMP, YMP, C90, J90, T90)
1985 Cray-2
1989 founds Cray Computer Corporation
1993 first and only Cray-3 delivered to NCAR
1995 CCC files for chapter 11; Cray-4 abandoned
1995 founds SRC (Seymour Roger Cray) Computer
October 5, 1996
Deceased Colorado Springs due to car accident
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(Click on image to enlarge)
Seymour Cray standing next to the core unit of the Cray 1 computer, circa 1974
Photograph courtesy of the Charles Babbage Institute, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis.
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