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I've seen these in at least two museums (Computer History Museum in Mountain View, CA and the Smithsonian Air & Space Museum in DC). They definitely make for good museum pieces, and you could probably pull enough parts together to get at least one working if you really wanted to pull this off.

Incidentally, a Cray-1 uses 115 kW of power when running. Would that be a new power consumption record for a device that's just running Doom?

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I saw one last summer at the Musée des Arts et Métiers in Paris. I was more fascinated then I expected https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Musée_des_Arts_et_Mé...

They looked more like abstract art pieces or 70ties science fiction props.

interesting. that huge transparent block is here for aesthetics only?

I gather it was used to regulate the temperature of the liquid coolant - but instead of just some pipes or whatever, the designers turned it into a nice "waterfall" feature. I think it even lit up.

To this day, it a dream of mine to sit on the bench of a Cray 1

The first one ever (I believe) is about a block up the street from here. Before Coronavirus, I would stop in and say hello to it, every couple of months.

A museum piece now. Would be great to see it running again. Not likely.

Depends, we could always create a cryptocurrency which renders and plays doom in a distributed manner. Reward people with "DoomCoins"

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