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==Installations== #[[Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory]] (LASL) in April 1961, accepted in May 1961, and used until June 21, 1971. #[[Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory]], [[Livermore, California]] delivered November 1961.<ref name="Timeline" /> #U.S. [[National Security Agency]] in February 1962 as the main CPU of the [[IBM 7950 Harvest]] system, used until 1976, when the [[IBM 7955]] Tractor tape system developed problems due to worn cams that could not be replaced. #[[Atomic Weapons Establishment]], [[Aldermaston]], England, delivered February 1962<ref name="Timeline">{{cite web |url=http://archive.computerhistory.org/resources/text/IBM/Stretch/102636400.txt |title=TIMELINE OF THE IBM STRETCH/HARVEST ERA (1956-1961) |access-date=June 13, 2021 }}</ref> #[[National Weather Service|U.S. Weather Bureau]] Washington D.C., delivered June/July 1962.<ref name="Timeline" /> #[[Mitre Corporation|MITRE Corporation]], delivered December 1962.<ref name="Timeline" /> and used until August 1971. In the spring of 1972, it was sold to [[Brigham Young University]], where it was used by the physics department until scrapped in 1982. #U.S. Navy [[Naval Surface Warfare Center Dahlgren Division|Dahlgren Naval Proving Ground]], delivered Sep/Oct 1962.<ref name="Timeline" /> #[[French Alternative Energies and Atomic Energy Commission|Commissariat à l'énergie atomique]], France, delivered November 1963.<ref name="Timeline" /> #IBM. The Lawrence Livermore Laboratory's IBM 7030 (except for its [[core memory]]) and portions of the MITRE Corporation/Brigham Young University IBM 7030 now reside in the [[Computer History Museum]] collection, in [[Mountain View, California]].
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