Today in Computer History
Daniel Hillis and Sheryl Handler establish Thinking Machines in May 1983. Two years later, Thinking Machines sells its first computer, the $5 million CM-1, designed with the concept of massive parallelism. By 1990, Thinking Machines is a market leader and has the attention of Wall Street. Just four years later, after a series of questionable decisions and a shift in government scientific spending, Thinking Machines files for Chapter 11.
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