Post AwHypw7DgTAKhjFeIC by johnmacintosh@swiss.social
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 (DIR) Post #AwHypw7DgTAKhjFeIC by johnmacintosh@swiss.social
       2025-07-19T10:56:23Z
       
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       The Cray-1 (1975) contained 60 miles of wire and broke computing records by reaching speeds of 160 megaflops. Cray sold 80 of these machines, priced between $5 and $8 million. You could order them in any color. #RetroComputing via Retro Tech Dreams from Twitter
       
 (DIR) Post #AwI0bsSUgQ8BDVcska by feliks@chaos.social
       2025-07-19T11:13:49Z
       
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       @johnmacintosh also you could sit on that neat little bench
       
 (DIR) Post #AwI6vp29j3IA6zCU1Q by adipoeserPursch@troet.cafe
       2025-07-19T12:27:02Z
       
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       @johnmacintosh And Cray 2 was water-cooled.
       
 (DIR) Post #AwI70nfqD22pLG8Wdk by NafiTheBear@snaggletooth.life
       2025-07-19T12:27:57Z
       
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       @johnmacintosh funfact: the seats had actual seat-foam on them and you could sit on them (and even nap)
       
 (DIR) Post #AwI9WE5CGrry8K6pyS by paulfoerster@swiss.social
       2025-07-19T12:56:03Z
       
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       @johnmacintosh And today, I have my laptop performing at 11 TOPS (trillion operations per second), whose CPU is made of 57 billion transistors, not just 160 megaflops. I recall that back in the olden days, the Cray-1 was considered THE high performance computer which was hard to top.Times change. 🤣https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_M1