[rescue] Cray listing on E-bay

[Dave McGuire]

  Sigh, yes. ;)  Let's please let that drop, though.  That crazy bitch
brought the cops to my house and demanded that they haul me away.  Even
though the the officers left peacefully with a handshake and an apology,
the memories of that day are not at all pleasant.

             -Dave

On 12/04/2017 05:26 PM, Patrick Giagnocavo wrote:
> All I remember is a lot of WIRES in your house, Dave ;-D
> 
> On Mon, Dec 4, 2017 at 12:49 PM, Dave McGuire <mcguire at neurotica.com> wrote:
>>   I don't recall exactly what issues Ethan hit with his systems.  He and
>> I had a lot of back-and-forth about it, but as you pointed out, it was
>> ~15 years ago; I don't remember exactly what he was hitting.
>>
>>               -Dave
>>
>> On 12/04/2017 11:41 AM, Bob Darlington wrote:
>>> Great!  Then that means I've got it wrong, and Ethan's sat for many years
>>> for no really good reason.  I hope he manages to get them running if he
>>> hasn't already (I haven't talked to him about this in over a year).    He
>>> bought 5 racks worth out of Pittsburgh somewhere about 15 years ago.  We
>>> were talking because of my access to media, but our current cray systems
>>> all run Linux for better or worse, and I am not adminning them these days.
>>>
>>> What I'd really like to see is a T90-4 up and going.   I watched ours get
>>> bled dry and it was a sad day.
>>>
>>> -Bob
>>>
>>> On Mon, Dec 4, 2017 at 8:55 AM, Dave McGuire <mcguire at neurotica.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>>   I don't know what to tell you, Bob.  I've done it.
>>>>
>>>>   Then I did it for a few others, then I did it for a machine that my
>>>> employer bought, in 1999.  I ran two of those machines (the one I had at
>>>> home, and the one at work) for several years.  I wrote tons of code on
>>>> those machines.
>>>>
>>>>   Later, just a couple of years ago, I negotiated a noncommercial use
>>>> license for Unicos and actually got full install media.  A couple of my
>>>> other J90s were sold (to good homes) a few years ago to help fund the
>>>> creation of the museum, and my original J90 is there now, getting ready
>>>> to be run again, this time in a museum setting.
>>>>
>>>>                -Dave
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>> Dave McGuire, AK4HZ
>> New Kensington, PA
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Dave McGuire, AK4HZ
New Kensington, PA