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Photo of Amdahl 5860 CPU and Roger Broughton, and of disks, ca. 1987. Each of the two large banks of disks held about 4 Gbytes. (From University of Newcastle, by permission.) Amdahl 5860 CPU Amdahl 5860 disks

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