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ekio Gonna buy it to get the ram !! With current prices I can still make profit… Reply
thisisaname Special terms for potential purchases These computers have been preserved for their cultural and aesthetic importance in the history of technology, and they may have been modified then or subsequently from their original form. Electronic or mechanical items or parts within these lots are being sold for their artistic, historical, or cultural interest only. The lot may not operate, function, or comply with current requirements or technical standards and may no longer be operational or fit for its original or any other purpose. RWB Auctions Limited does not guarantee that these lots are in the original state or function as they were originally intended. With those T&C's who knows what you are buying. Reply
thisisaname An other item on there was A Cray Y-MP4E, serial number 1904, configured with three Cray parallel vector processors, 64MW of system memory and the desirable SSD option with 32MW of storage. Storage and memory quoted in terms of MW? Edit: Not Mega watts but Mega Words 😮 Reply
Dementoss thisisaname said: With those T&C's who knows what you are buying. Essentially a 'sold as seen' disclaimer, because they are not in a position to be able check it's originality or, able to properly test it. Reply
Dntknwitall Honestly to pay $81,000 for nostalgia is only for the rich as this "Supercomputer" has zero use today, I don't even think this would run linux of any distro. It is a massive paper weight in the tonnage. I do not think it is going to sell. Reply
Hugo Nabais ekio said: Gonna buy it to get the ram !! With current prices I can still make profit… Well, it has a TOTAL of only 32 GiB, with individual (useless) modules of 64 MB of very old DRAM. Nothing worth there! Reply
bit_user If I had silly amounts of money and space, the only supercomputers I'd buy would the iconic ones, like a Cray-1: or a Thinking Machines CM-2: The more it looks like just some 19-inch racks, the less interested I get. Reply
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