[Swordmaker]

I'm thinking it would cost a few hundred thousand, be the size of a small apartmenrt, and be used by the government as a supercomputer.

Considering its faster and more powerful than a Cray of the period which sold for $8,860,000, you are probably on the low end of the price... the very low end... if we were comparing processing power.

1976 Cray 1 - $8,860,000

"When in 1986 Apple bought a Cray X-MP and announced that they would use it to design the next Apple Macintosh, Seymour Cray replied, "This is very interesting because I am using an Apple Macintosh to design the Cray-2 supercomputer." Also, when Apple Computer took ownership of the machine they had a party for Apple employees where crayfish were served."

[Paridel]

I got my friend a framed board from a Cray 1 for his wedding present. I was under the mistaken impression that both he *and* his now wife were computer engineers.

Turns out that she was an industrial engineer and didn't quite appreciate it as much as he did.

-paridel