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To: moonshot925
Cray-2, now in convenient tablet form for just $399:

Yes, equivalent computing power. Around the time I was standing in the middle of a Cray-2 (a wonderfully unique opportunity during high school), I wondered what if all that computing power was applied to a single user interface; now I know.

19 posted on 08/01/2012 7:20:53 AM PDT by ctdonath2 ($1 meals: http://abuckaplate.blogspot.com)
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To: ctdonath2

The Cray-2 costed $12-18 million in 1985.

It felt kind of cool working with the fastest computer in the world.

LOL


24 posted on 08/01/2012 7:34:19 AM PDT by moonshot925
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