So
this is the story of India's first supercomputer PARAM 8000.
In
1980's, our the then PM Rajiv Gandhi went many times to US and
begged(literally!) in front of US president Ronald Reagon for procuring supercomputer
for our country. Ronald Reagon ignored him every time and when our PM didn't understand
his signals, he finally told him in direct words. During this time many
scientists in our country were persuading him that we have the capability to
develop supercomputer on our own but he haven't believed them. Finally when US
president humiliated him, he reluctantly gave orders to develop supercomputer
to our scientists. And then miracle happened within three years and our
scientists develop PARAM 8000 and created history by becoming the first
developing nation who created its own supercomputer.
P.S.
I haven't gone through the whole list of answers, so sorry if someone had
already written on this.
