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I LOVE the Cray-2 also!!!! I'm decidedly partial to the enormous profile of the Cray-1 (can't beat a computer you can walk into), but I absolutely adore the compactness of this thing. Visually it is PERFECTLY representing "the Cray-1 but denser" and I just think it's so cute.

I also agree the cooling tower is adorable. The freon fishtank is really my favorite -- love love love the trivia that the engineers working on the Cray-2 would call it "Bubbles" because of the boiling cooling tank 🥺

March 4, 2000: @Sony @Playstation 2 Released #podcast #history #technology #playstation

Playstation 2

2000 – The Playstation 2 was released in Japan to rival Sega’s Dreamcast system and Nintendo Game Cube. The Playstation 2 had an “Emotion Engine” processor at 294 MHz (later 299 MHz with 128 bit capabilities), 32 MB RAMBUS memory, Graphics synth at 147 MHz, USB 1.1, Ethernet connection and 2 memory card slots which could accept up to 8 MB cards.

The Sony Playstation 2 didn’t hit the…

March 4, 2000: Sony Playstation 2

Playstation 2

2000 – The Playstation 2 was released in Japan to rival Sega’s Dreamcast system and Nintendo Game Cube. The Playstation 2 had an “Emotion Engine” processor at 294 MHz (later 299 MHz with 128 bit capabilities), 32 MB RAMBUS memory, Graphics synth at 147 MHz, USB 1.1, Ethernet connection and 2 memory card slots which could accept up to 8 MB cards.

The Sony Playstation 2 didn’t hit the…

Et si David Lightman étez passé du coté obscur ?

Il est étonnant qu ‘ un film , aussi bon soit il , surtout sans aucune vocation militante ( cf Antitrust ) , pose des questions quelque vingt ans , ce pose de fait avec la Loi – renseignement . D ‘ ailleurs , quelle est le point commun entre WarGames et Sneakers – les experts ? , il s ‘ agit du même producteur . Bon qu ‘est ce raconte Sneakers – les…

These Two Guys Tried to Rebuild a Cray Supercomputer

There was a time when the word "supercomputer" inspired the same sort of giddy awe that infuses Superman or Superconducting Supercollider. A supercomputer could leap tall buildings in a single bound and peer into the secrets of the universe. 

And chief among this race of almost mythical machines was the Cray. His first computer, the Cray 1, debuted in 1976, and was the embodiment of all the power that crackled around the supercomputer. It weighed 10,500 pounds. Thirty humans were necessary to help install it. And its first users built nuclear weapons: Model No. 1 went to Los Alamos National Laboratory. Eventually Cray sold 80.