What is "mistic"

Mistic \Mis"tic\, Mistico \Mis"ti*co\, n. [Sp. m['i]stico.] A kind of small sailing vessel used in the Mediterranean. It is rigged partly like a xebec, and partly like a felucca.

n. A kind of small sailing vessel used in the Mediterranean, rigged partly like a xebec and partly like a felucca.

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.