New member, New machine

From: Mike Ford <mikeford_at_netwiz.net>
Date: Wed Jun 30 10:27:47 1999

>> Anyway the reason I am mailing is that I have just been given the
>> chance to take home a decomissioned Meiko CS2 from work.
>
>Basically, the United States sucks.
>
>Why is it that overseas decomissioned supercomputers (albeit a rather
>small one in this instance) are easy to obtain, but trying to pry one out
>of a stateside installation is basically impossible? The government, and
>some rather outdated "security" issues have something to do with it.
>
>Damn, I would drive half way across the continent to pick up an older
>Cray, ETA, CM, KSR, Maspar, NEC, etc..

I haven't seen any excitement over the MassPar I told the list about
sitting in Irvine CA. I think the scrappers have the bidding up around $200
or so, and so far it is still complete with the dec workstation to run it.
Received on Wed Jun 30 1999 - 10:27:47 BST