Tony Cole's Cray-1

From: William Donzelli <william_at_ans.net>
Date: Tue Apr 28 18:08:27 1998

> I've seen the weight listed as both 5 and 30 tons for the Cray-1 in news
> articles. I assume it's closer to 5, right? At 2 lbs each, the RAM weighs
> only (!) 800 lbs or so.

5 or 6, some models (not complete "c"'s) less.

> I read that Cray sold a total of 40 Cray-1's, so even 20% doesn't leave
> too many intact machines (although it makes my memory board fairly common
> if 16000 were produced).

But how many Cybers are still around? How many ETAs? Even (non-super) IBM
S/360s are very rare (thousands made, maybe a dozen left).

William Donzelli
william_at_ans.net
Received on Tue Apr 28 1998 - 18:08:27 BST