At 16:47 2/17/98 -0800, Sam Ismail wrote:
>On Tue, 17 Feb 1998, Adam Jenkins wrote:
>
>> How often do these come up for sale? A Cray, about 6 or 7 years old,
>> apparently, is being sold in Australia. They're asking $100,000, which
>> puts it a tad out of my range. :) However, if it isn't sold it will be
>> scrapped....
$US or $A? Incidentally.
>[snip]
>I say wait for them to move on to
>the decision to scrap it and then try to bid on it.
>But it won't be cheap.
>The Lawrence Livermore National Laboratories (across the street from my
>neighborhood) auctioned off their Cray in 1993 and it was sold for $10,000
>to some oaf who said he could get lots of gold out of it....
Tony Cole, who didn't scrap it -- he set up a company called Memorybilia,
pulled the boards, and sold them onesies, then managed to get the framework
erected somewhere as a sculpture. He did well enough out of the first one
that he repeated the process with several more.
>Sure, but I think the shipping would put me back a few bucks.
The CRAY-1 that went from Livermore to the History Center last year was
reputed to have weighed about six tons. From Oz to Northern CA, mmmm....
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