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The IBM 7094 the fourth member of the most popular family of IBM's large second-generation transistorized mainframe computers and was designed for "large-scale scientific and technological applications". The first 7094 installation was in September 1962. In April 1964, the first 7094 II was installed, which had almost twice as much general speed as the earlier IBM 7090 due to a faster clock cycle and introduction of overlapped instruction execution.
NASA used 7094s to control the Mercury and Gemini space flights. The US Air Force retired its last 7094s in service from the Ballistic Missile Early Warning System ("BMEWS") in the 1980s after almost 30 years of use.
The US Navy continued to use a 7094 at Pacific Missile Test Center, Point Mugu, California through much of the 1980s, although a "retirement" ceremony was held in July 1982. Not all of the applications had been ported to its successor, a dual-processor CDC Cyber 175.
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