My other computer is a Cray! - test-drb@ccmp.vtda.org

3 Aug 2001

On August 3, Heinz Wolter wrote:
...
  Anybody see the Cray YMP-EL on ebay today?
 The folklore goes that Woz walked into Cray's building and just asked
 to buy a Cray. Much later Seymour was heard to comment that he
 thought it was funny Apple used a Cray to design a Mac, since he
 himself used a Mac to design the next generation Crays...

 In the end, Apple didn't have a real use for the Cray, other than a nice
 ornament, though some say it may have been bought and used to simulate
 and design production tooling for some Apple products... 
  One of the photos in the Y/MP-EL sales literature is a simulation of
plastic distribution in an injection molding system.  The molding is
clearly a front case component for an early Mac.

...
  Still, if it is  ~that~ - machine - it would be quite
a piece of history to
 own... 
  Indeed.

...
  There was a T-shirt that sold on ebay recently that
says:
 "My other computer is a Cray"..;) Strangely enough, Apple did have
 some deal with Cray to offer Macs as front ends to Crays... 
  Yes, I've always wanted one of those. :)

     -Dave

-- 
Dave McGuire
Laurel, MD