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A supercomputer is defined as any computer with at least 10 times the speed and capacity of any standard computer of that time. Depending on which scholars you ask, one of the following computers was the first supercomputer:

  1. IBM NORC - 1952 - vacuum tubes
  2. UNIVAC LARC - 1960 - surface barrier germanium transistors
  3. IBM 7030 Stretch - 1961 - diffusion germanium transistors
  4. CDC 6600 - 1964 - diffusion silicon transistors
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