15 Dec
2001
15 Dec
'01
1:49 p.m.
On Sat, 15 Dec 2001, Carlos Murillo wrote:
I want a CRAY.
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Carlos E. Murillo-Sanchez carlos_murillo(a)nospammers.ieee.org
Actually, I just heard that University of Texas is replacing their
Cray(s) with a set of IBM Regattas. If somebody with contacts there made
the right moves at the right time, the Crays could probably be had.
Maybe for next to nothing. UT sends a HUGE volume of hardware to the
Texas Department of Corrections, who sorts out the PC & Mac hardware &
refines the rest. It always broke my heart watching the guys at surplus
get that stuff ready to ship.
And no, they never liked me there. I had this thing about fixing the
routers so my clients printed to my printers, not the building next
door. They had this thing about filling out requests on pater and
waiting 5 weeks. I never did. They never changed the passwords on the
routers. They don't like me.
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