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US Mint launches $1 coin featuring Cray-1
The first commercially successful supercomputer, now in coin form
April 08, 2026
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Sebastian Moss
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The US Mint has launched a one-dollar coin featuring the Cray-1 supercomputer.<br>Launched in 2018, the American Innovation $1 Coin Program features innovations associated with different US states, with four coins released every year.
– US Mint
This year, Iowa's coin features Dr. Norman Borlaug and his pioneering work in agronomy, California's coin has a young Steve Jobs of Apple fame sitting in a northern California landscape, and Minnesota has a 1940s-era truck equipped with an early front-mounted refrigeration unit.<br>Wisconsin's $1 Coin has a stylized top-down view of the Cray-1 supercomputer. "The image emphasizes the Cray-1 not only through its shape, but by also suggesting the shape of a 'C' for Cray-1 and 'computer,'" the Mint said.<br>The Cray-1 was built in a C shape, surrounded by a ring of benches that covered the power supplies and the cooling system.<br>The first Cray-1 system was installed at Los Alamos National Laboratory in 1976, with eighty Cray-1s sold until 1982.<br>The coin's obverse (heads) design features the Statue of Liberty in profile with the inscription “In God We Trust.”
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