ILLIAC II
The ILLIAC II was a revolutionary super-computer built by the University of Illinois that became operational in 1962. == Description == The concept, proposed in 1958, pioneered emitter-coupled logic (ECL) circuitry, pipelining, and transistor memory with a design goal of 100x speedup compared to ILLIAC I. ILLIAC II had 8192 words of core memory, backed up by 65,536 words of storage on magnetic drums.