[geeks] Daily Dose of Unix

William S. wstan at xs4all.nl
Fri Jan 31 23:55:42 CST 2003


Any photos of the CM2A around somewhere?

On Fri, Jan 31, 2003 at 11:35:46AM -0500, dave wrote:
> v53278 at g.haggve.se writes:
> 
> >Speaking of good-looking. I've always though that the SGI Onyx2 was the
> >coolest hardware I've seen, in person. In my book, the sexiest machine
> >out there is(was?) the Connection Machine 5, although I've never had the
> >pornographic experience to have actually see one.
> >Cray T3E look nice too.
> 
> CM5s are very nice up close, but the most amazing looking modern
> machine has to be the CM2A. It's kinda small, but it's so James
> Bond it's rediculous. (Not to be confused with the CM2, which is
> a better machine, but not as insane looking.)
> 
> Of course the coolest looking machines of all are from the 50s
> and 60s, when computers had real front panels.
> 

-- 
Bill
Amsterdam, NL


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