[krylon]

One thing that strikes me about Cray's designs is that they look so extraordinarily cool, but the look of the machines is - according to Wikipedia - often the result of technical/engineering requirements/decisions. They were led by technical priorities almost exclusively, yet they came out not only the fastest computers on earth (at the time), they also looked ... awesome.

[stephengoodwin]

I always found it somewhat humorous that Cray invested so much effort into the look of it's supercomputers, considering very few people would actually see the inside of a super computing center.