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From: eugene@ames.UUCP (Eugene Miya)
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Subject: Re: Cray-2 Overview, extracted from "Cray Channels"
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Date: Mon, 12-Aug-85 18:13:29 EDT
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Posted: Mon Aug 12 18:13:29 1985
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> In article <256@frog.UUCP> john@frog.UUCP (John Woods) writes:
> >makes it look like the Cray 2 would make a good bar in your living room!
> >I'll take two...
> 
> The Cray 2 costs $17,000,000. It takes 55 tons of air conditioning.
> You want two?
>  Phil Ngai (408) 749-5720
>  UUCP: {ucbvax,decwrl,ihnp4,allegra}!amdcad!phil
>  ARPA: amdcad!phil@decwrl.ARPA

> Anybody know how much one of these things costs?  And while we're at it,
> how much did one of those "old" CRAY-1's used to cost?  :-)
> -- 
> David K. Bradley  

Old Crays are not resold.  This is a different kind of market place.
They use to be $10 million (approx) when they first came out.
The cheapest X-MP/1 can now be purchased for about
$5M without front-end, disks, SSD, and so on.

Want to place and order?  Send a message to ames!amelia!craywest and add
the name "TO: BENCE" in the subject field.   Or try craywest@ames-nas.ARPA.
George Spix (gas@lanl) could also probably help. Bence Gerber will be happy to sell
you one (earliest available machine is 1987). :-) !

--eugene miya
  NASA Ames Research Center
  {hplabs,ihnp4,dual,hao,decwrl,allegra}!ames!aurora!eugene
  emiya@ames-vmsb