Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!cbmvax!vu-vlsi!nlp
From: nlp@vu-vlsi.Villanova.EDU (Nick Pine)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: A Recently Heard Story About Seymour Cray
Keywords: Cray,Mackintosh,Mac,Design
Message-ID: <2054@vu-vlsi.Villanova.EDU>
Date: 11 Dec 88 04:22:32 GMT
References: <90@stanton.TCC.COM>
Reply-To: nlp@vu-vlsi.UUCP (Nick Pine)
Organization: Villanova Univ. EE Dept.
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In article <90@stanton.TCC.COM> donegan@stanton.TCC.COM (Steven P. Donegan) writes:
>
>Seymour Cray called Apple and noted that he had heard Apple was using a Cray
>to design future Mackintosh systems.
>
Well, I don't know. By the way, can you confirm or deny these:

	1. SC designed the 160A in a weekend.
	2. SC used to park his MG on the front lawn at the CDC towers for
	   board meetings with a cardboard sign on the windshield:
           "S. Cray, do not disturb."
	3. SC visited a beta site for a large (6600?) computer which was having
           problems, listened to descriptions of those problems, which had
	   plagued everyone for weeks, ordered everyone out of the computer
	   room, sat for 2 hours and 21 minutes, called everyone back in, and
	   said "change THIS wire," pointing to a schematic, and went back to
	   Chippewa Falls. The change was made, and the problem was solved.

--Nick