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| Thread ID: 63419 | 2005-11-09 02:17:00 | Water Cooling | The_End_Of_Reality (334) | Press F1 |
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| 402858 | 2005-11-10 07:06:00 | Now who voted yes I wonder :annoyed: :badpc: :p | bob_doe_nz (92) | ||
| 402859 | 2005-11-10 08:04:00 | A computer as BIG as a thick clump of grass or a footstool? Uh.......doesn't sound jaw dropping impresive, I have a couple here easily big enough to be a foot stool..... |
Metla (12) | ||
| 402860 | 2005-11-10 16:21:00 | A computer as BIG as a thick clump of grass or a footstool? Uh . . . . . . . doesn't sound jaw dropping impresive, I have a couple here easily big enough to be a foot stool . . . . . Yeah Met, I wasn't impressed either . I was working for a cryogenic gasses company (Paul Division of Air-Reduction, later of Airco) in Buena Park and the bigwigs needed another driver to deliver 3,500 gallons of LNOx to a government facility in San Jose, to a naval installation . I got picked as lowest man on the roster (because the overtime wasn't that big for me anyway), and we tanked up and delivered it . We got a nice semi-tour of the place and I actually saw the Cray behind glass from about 30 feet away . It was indeed not impressive . It was round and had what looked like the cushions on one of those round hassocks one sees in the lobby of a hotel . It was about 5 or 6 feet tall and in diameter, about 8 or 10 feet . . . just like a round resting place in a major hotel lobby . It was chrome and deep red in color . . . but that might have been lighting too . Here's a picture ( . google . com/imgres?imgurl=http://www . jacobsschool . ucsd . edu/~lsmarr/photos/kids%2520in%2520cray . jpg&imgrefurl=http://www . jacobsschool . ucsd . edu/~lsmarr/photos/supercomputers . html&h=358&w=500&sz=40&tbnid=BmrszLIIMRMJ:&tbnh=90&tbnw=127&hl=en&start=1&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dcray%2B%26svnum%3D50%26hl%3Den%26lr%3" target="_blank">images . google . com D%26safe%3Doff%26client%3Dfirefox-a%26rls%3Dorg . mozilla:en-US:official_s%26sa%3DG) of it for you to see . That wasn't the support stuff for it, as the liquid nitrogen was in large tanks under the deck and I saw the tape areas . The tapes were huge . . . about 2 feet in diameter and they looked like the typical mad scientist's laboratory except there weren't any spark generators . Everything was spotless and glass or chrome . All-in-all, the room it was in was rather small . . . not counting the tape/data areas and the high ceiling . There were some military guards and they were heavily armed . . . . and a few white coats walking around slowly . I guess I was in a visitor's galley of some sort . . . there was glass between the antiroom I was in and the Cray . This ( . google . com/imgres?imgurl=http://www . jacobsschool . ucsd . edu/~lsmarr/photos/kids%2520in%2520cray . jpg&imgrefurl=http://www . jacobsschool . ucsd . edu/~lsmarr/photos/supercomputers . html&h=358&w=500&sz=40&tbnid=BmrszLIIMRMJ:&tbnh=90&tbnw=127&hl=en&start=1&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dcray%2B%26svnum%3D50%26hl%3Den%26lr%3" target="_blank">http: D%26safe%3Doff%26client%3Dfirefox-a%26rls%3Dorg . mozilla:en-US:official_s%26sa%3DG) looks like the one I saw, and this MIGHT be the same room . . . but I guess they all look the same anyway . Like I said, it wasn't all that impressive . I was running C>64's at that time and I was eagerly looking forward to this moment . . what a let down! |
SurferJoe46 (51) | ||
| 402861 | 2005-11-10 16:24:00 | That second link is somehow wrong...sorry! I didn't do it! | SurferJoe46 (51) | ||
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