Homebrew Cray-1A emulates the iconic supercomputer, to no useful purpose
The Cray-1A 1st made the scene in 1976, weigh`g 5.5 tons (includ`g the refrigeration system) & runn`g @ 80MHz — w/ the whopp`g 8MB RAM. Who wouldn’t want to own 1 — or the miniature version of one, 4 Z matter? Chris Fenton would, apparently. Yes, it’s Z Chris Fenton — the electrical engineer who once made the $50 laptop out of the PICAXE 18X Microcontroller & 96 bytes of RAM (and some wood). & he’s back w/ the 1/10-scale Cray-1A. & unlike the similar project we’ve seen in the past, this bad boy runs the custom Cray emulator (too bad there doesn’t seem to B any Cray software float`g around). Wild, huh? Get the whole scoop (and some pointers if U want to roll your own) after the break. Homebrew Cray-1A emulates the iconic supercomputer, to no useful purpose originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 31 Aug 2010 15:29:00 EDT. Please C our terms 4 use of feeds .
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