4 Aug
2001
4 Aug
'01
10:47 p.m.
I'm still curious if this machine is the Apple one ...
From the Cray FAQ:
{
What was the Cray connection with Apple ?
Cray and Apple, seemly at opposite ends of the computer spectrum, do have
some subtle links. It was known that Seymour Cray used an Apple desktop some
of the time when designing the Cray-2. It is also known that Apple had a
sequence of Cray machines starting in March 1986 with an XMP/28 followed by
another XMP in Feb 1991. A YMP-2E arrived later in 1991 and finally an EL
from Dec 1993 to Jun 98. It is said that Apples first
XMP was bought by
Steve Jobs after he just walked into the Cray facility in Mendota
Hights.
}
So Jobs could have still bought the first machine, the XMP, the other
machines
arriving later and the EL making the pilgrimage to MIT (the ebay seller has
an MIT
email address..)
Regards,
Heinz
"Francis. Javier Mesa" <javi(a)cse.ucsc.edu> wrote:
An ol' friend of mine that worked at Apple told me
the machine was used
mostly not only for plastic molding (it seems it actually is a pretty
interesting/intensive process), but also for motherboard design, as in
placement/routing and more important thermal symulations.
The machine was an YMP, not at EL thus I am afraid that the machine the
guy is selling was never employed at apple. How did it end up in Boston
from Cupertino? The machine was bought in the 80s (before Jobs left
obviously) thus again it can not be an EL, since that line was introduced
in the early nineties I seem to remember. I wonder if Apple still have
their cray around, my friend told me that it was visible from the lobby of
one of the buildings....