Homebrew Cray-1A (2010)

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Several previous discussions. Maybe Chris will show up again.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8447518

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6291515

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4561787

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2621177

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1645291

Did someone summon me?

I said it before, and I will say it again: If someone managed to build a scaled-down version of the Cray-1 chassis and put a regular PC in it, that would be the coolest case ever.

Someone made a 1/3 scale https://www.bit-tech.net/reviews/modding/case-mod/cray-1-by-...

Due to the hole in middle it is difficult to fit a rectangle without result being quite large. Even with a mini-ITX board (17x17cm) the diameter needs to be at least 2-3 times bigger that's half a meter.

I know. :-(

Would be really cool, though!

I wish computers still looked like this.

That led me to an interesting story about how Andras Tantos recovered a working OS image from the raw high-res magnetic disc image:

http://www.modularcircuits.com/blog/articles/the-cray-files/...

The coolest retro machine I’ve seen are connection machines.

They’re just solid black cubes, when powered on they burn hundreds of ominous red dots across their surface, pulsing to show you the status of your program as it runs in real time.

It’s like something Apple would make if they became a very evil cyberpunk company.

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