MISTIC
![The Computer Center once housed the early computer MISTIC.](/Images/godic/202501/27/MSU_Computer_Center1528.jpg")
The MISTIC, or Michigan State Integral Computer, was the first computer system at Michigan State University and was built by its students, faculty and staff in 1956. Powered by vacuum tubes, its design was based on ILLIAC, the supercomputer built at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, a descendent of the IAS architecture developed by John von Neumann.