Tony Cole's Cray-1

From: Doug Yowza <yowza_at_yowza.com>
Date: Tue Apr 28 18:20:14 1998

On Tue, 28 Apr 1998, William Donzelli wrote:

> > 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).

So the moral of the story is that manufacturers should build furniture
into their computer systems, so when the computer is obsolete, the system
will live on as furniture. :-)

-- Doug
Received on Tue Apr 28 1998 - 18:20:14 BST