When I started working at the supercomputing center, I encountered the above. When a conference came and given my awful history with seaborg (ie 'hugging it' and whatnot), I decided that I needed to get some vengeance.
The funny part was...some time after, the Blue Gene cabinet config was announced:
Coincidence? Or Not?
Gawd, I'm such a geezer. Back in the early 70s, I designed the first semiconductor add on memory for IBM 370/155 and 370/165 series computers. It used 2K bit chips. One (1) megabyte took up a full cabinet as shown. Sold for ~$40,000.
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