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It would be interesting to look back on our "dream computer"
posts from the viewpoint of the year 2020.
What a difference 20 years can make!
The first CRAY-1 we shipped in 1976 had 8 MB of RAM and a
clock speed of 80 MHz. That was an $8 Million supercomputer.
Of course, we gave our customers real Freon cooling, not this
silly fan stuff.
Dick Dimock Artfully Senior Tech Writer holding the fort at
