Seymour Cray’s big super computer was crazy. It’s signals between components had to be timed by trimming long cables up to 1/16th of an inch at a time by hand and was basically interwoven with a giant refrigeration system. Name: Cray-1 Year created: 1976 Creator: Cray Research, Inc. Cost: $5 million to $10 million Memory: 4MW semiconductor Speed: 160 MFLOPS Building supercomputers was a dream, an aspiration, and a life’s pursuit for Seymour Cray, and his work on the computers that bore his name was the culmination of work he had done for the U.S.

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Cray-1: The Super Computer [Computers]