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Line 8: An initial testbed system, the "IC model", was built with 16 processors consisting of individual [[integrated circuit]]s and connected to an [[IBM 360]]/65 host. This proved successful, and in the early 1970s, Burroughs won the contract to build a prototype of the full-sized 288-processor version. Burroughs delivered PEPE to the Ballistic Missile Defense Advanced Technology Center (part of US Army's Strategic Defense Command) in [[Huntsville, Alabama]] in 1976.<ref name=Ford/> Testing was apparently successful, but Bell concluded that the machine was too expensive for the sorts of threats being addressed by the [[Safeguard Program]] that was being deployed in the 1970s.<ref name=silogic/> The system was eventually sent to [[~~McDonald~~McDonnell Douglas]] in [[Huntington Beach, CA]].{{efn\|It was previously believed to have gone to [[Kwajalein Island]], home of the Army's ballistic missile testing range.<ref name=silogic/>}} After it was retired, it was sent to [[Auburn University]], which scrapped the system some time in the late 1980s or early 1990s.<ref name=silogic/> ==Description==

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