> 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?
If the man was not in the US - yes, there were certainly restrictions and the State Department could and did get involved in such deals. However, if the man was a US citizen and in the US, there were never any restrictions. Collectors have been buying Crays ever since the first Cray-1s were going out of service. -- Will ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
