Reading this I wonder, say we did have a time machine and were somehow able to give scientists back in the day access to an RPI5. What sort of crazy experiments would that have spawned?

I'm sure when the Cray 1 came out, access to it must have been very restricted and there must have been hoards of scientists clamoring to run their experiments and computations on it. What would have happened if we gave every one of those clamoring scientists an RPI5?

And yes I know this raises an interface problem of how would they even use one back in the day but lets put that to the side and assume we figured out how to make an RPI5 behave exactly like a Cray 1 and allowed scientists to use it in a productive way.