STARAN

STARAN in the information technology industry might be the first commercially available computer designed around an associative memory. The STARAN computer was designed and built by Goodyear [Aerospace Corporation]. It is a content-addressable parallel processor, a type of parallel processor which uses content-addressable memory. STARAN is. The STARAN machines became available in 1972.
Goodyear Aerospace later developed the MPP based on similar principles but with a larger and wider processor array.