Hacker builds working 1/10th scale Cray 1

Try contacting the Computer History Museum (http://www.computerhistory.org/). They have a fairly large collection of Crays.

Maybe a museum outside the U.S, can help. There is one in my old hometown in Germany. It is the biggest computer museum in the world and they have a cray-1. http://en.hnf.de

> 80 MHz

It runs a bit slower, he's got it pegged at 33 MHz in the article linked elsewhere, the 80 Mhz was the original machine.

Absolutely awesome project, even if not very useful, the guy must have pretty amazing skills to re-implement all this 'on the side'.

I suppose I'd probably read it somewhere, but it reminds me what a huge gap there used to be between supercomputers and anything else in raw horsepower. 80 MHz in 1976! Workstation-class machines only achieved those clock speeds around 1991-92, and the Pentium hit that speed in 1994. Not directly comparable (very different architectures), but still I think a bigger gap than currently exists between top-end consumer equipment and top-end big iron when you look at single CPUs (big iron of course scales up to much higher multiprocessing).