On Fri, 3 Aug 2001, Heinz Wolter wrote:
> Bill Bradford wrote:
> > On Fri, Aug 03, 2001 at 03:09:52PM -0400, Heinz Wolter wrote:
> > > There was a T-shirt that sold on ebay recently that says:
> > > "My other computer is a Cray"..;) Strangely enough, Apple did have
> > > some deal with Cray to offer Macs as front ends to Crays...
> >
> > http://dspace.dial.pipex.com/town/park/abm64/CrayWWWStuff/
> >
> > I'll have to dig, but the last time I read through this,
> > a certain PowerBook model was used as a front-end..
>
> I stand humbly corrected... s/Woz/Jobs/
> >From the Cray Faq listed in the link - see below
> What a shame to make the YMP VME Force IOP pretend
> to be a lowly Mac or be relegated to NFS service...
> Heinz
An ol' friend of mine that worked at Apple told me the machine was used
mostly not only for plastic molding (it seems it actually is a pretty
interesting/intensive process), but also for motherboard design, as in
placement/routing and more important thermal symulations.
The machine was an YMP, not at EL thus I am afraid that the machine the
guy is selling was never employed at apple. How did it end up in Boston
from Cupertino? The machine was bought in the 80s (before Jobs left
obviously) thus again it can not be an EL, since that line was introduced
in the early nineties I seem to remember. I wonder if Apple still have
their cray around, my friend told me that it was visible from the lobby of
one of the buildings.... jobs seemed to like it because it looked so cool
(his products might be not that good but that he has style.... I don't
think Jobs has ever produced an ugly computer..... although he reached his
pinnacle with NeXT darn those were cool looking computers!)
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