TECHNOLOGY & ARCHITECTURE

(above) Junkers JU52

(above) CRAY I high-performance computer

The CRAY I was Cray's first supercomputer, its architecture developed by Seymour Cray's team. Seymour Cray was responsible for the vector register technology. The first Cray-1 was put into operation at Los Alamos National Laboratory in 1976.

Technical specifications: Clock speed 80 MHz, 8 MB RAM, word length 64 bits, performance 80 million floating-point operations per second, weight 5.5t, power consumption 230 KW, price $48 million

(above) Barth Airport

(above) Gorch Fock in Stralsund, launched in 1933 at Blohm & Voss

(above) On the deck of a ferry to Helsinki (Finnline)

(above) Port of Gdansk and surroundings