Amaya Toman In today's part of our column, dedicated to historical events in the field of technology, we will remember the arrival of two different devices. The first was the Cray-1 supercomputer, which traveled to the Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico on March 4, 1977. In the second part of the article, we will return to the year 2000, when the popular PlayStation 2 game console from Sony began to be sold in Japan.
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First Cray-1 supercomputer (1977)
On March 4, 1977, the first Cray-1 supercomputer was sent to its "workplace". The goal of his trip was the Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico, the price of the said supercomputer was already at that time a dizzying nineteen million dollars. The Cray-1 supercomputer could handle 240 million calculations per second and was used to design sophisticated defense systems. The father of this super-powerful machine was Seymour Cray, the inventor of multiprocessing.
Here Comes the PlayStation 2 (2000)
On March 4, 2000, Sony's PlayStation 2 game console was released in Japan. The PS2 was intended to compete with Sega's popular Dreamcast and Nintendo's Game Cube. The PlayStation 2 console was supplemented with DualShock 2 controllers and equipped with a USB and Ethernet port. The PS 2 offered backward compatibility with the previous generation and also served as a relatively affordable DVD player. It was equipped with a 294Hz (later 299 MHz) 64-bit Emotion Engine processor and offered, among other things, the function of smoothing the pixels of 3D applications and lower quality movies. The PlayStation 2 quickly became very popular among gamers, and its sales ended only one month before the arrival of the PlayStation 4.
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