On 05/27/2016 03:10 PM, Ethan via vcf-midatlantic wrote:
I wish there were Cray collectors with that much enthusiasm and bankroll.
I've always wanted a YMP-EL ( Preferably a 94, but I suppose I'd take anyone I could get if I had the opportunity ). But they are rather impossible to come by. There are some J90's out there, but they are usually in price ranges that make them hard to justify, which is more than likely why they probably never seem to sell, at least on the collector market. I suppose if you had a company that needed one for an important piece of software they had to run, you could probably get a good price for it. I made a good deal on an 4D/80 I had like that once. Some company in Germany had code that was hand coded for the GTX GPU with a lots of R3000 assembly, it would not run on anything but a 80 or 70 with a GTX card set, and the work to move it was more expensive than keeping the older systems alive. Might be different now. -- -- Derrik Derrik Walker v2.0, RHCE dwalker@doomd.net "Those UNIX guys, they think weird!" -- John C. Dvorak