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IBM built a secret NSA computer in 1962 that ran 200x faster; how a worn part ended it

The year 1962 marked the inception of a clandestine project by IBM for the NSA, giving rise to the secret computer named Harvest. For fourteen years, this remarkable machine tackled critical cryptographic computations during the tense Cold War era, boasting speeds that eclipsed its peers by a factor of 200.

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