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| A basic installation of [[IBM 7030 Stretch]] had a cost at the time of {{US$|7.78 million}} each.

| The [[IBM 7030 Stretch]] performs one floating-point multiply every {{val|2.4 |ul=microseconds}}.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://computer-history.info/Page4.dir/pages/IBM.7030.Stretch.dir/ |title=The IBM 7030 (STRETCH) |publisher=Norman Hardy |access-date=February 24, 2017}}</ref> Second-generation ([[Transistor computer|transistor]]-based) computer.

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| 1964

| $2[[billion|B]]

| ${{Inflation|US|2|1964|r=3|fmt=c}}B

| [[CDC 6600]]

| The CDC 6600 is considered to be the first commercially-successful [[supercomputer]].

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| 1984