http://www.chipsetc.com/computer-memorabilia-collectors.html Cray Y-MP C90 supercomputer listed on eBay in September 2000; it sold to a private individual for $45,000, down from the original list price of $35 million.
On Mon, Nov 9, 2015 at 5:00 AM, Elardus Engelbrecht <[email protected]> wrote: > Cannaerts, Jan wrote: > >>On the upside, you're making sure that the only people left on your platform >>are interested, and patient people. Who usually gravitate towards being >>competent in what they do. > > Indeed. I wish there are more of them... Money is the problem, just to have a > premium PC requires deep pockets full of money. > > Which leads me to wonder about this story which I read in the years 1980 and > around. > > Apparently a man bought a mainframe (Cray 1?) and the US Congress was not > happy with it. It seemed they don't like that individuals may own a > supercomputers because they feared that it could be misused [1] to threaten > the government's military computers or so goes the story. > > He was eventually allowed to buy and posses it. > > Was that story true or false? Could someone please enlighten me? > > Groete / Greetings > Elardus Engelbrecht > > [1] - Their fears, if true, were indeed confirmed by all those wikileaks > stories these days... > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN -- Mike A Schwab, Springfield IL USA Where do Forest Rangers go to get away from it all? ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
