[strictnein]

> "Wish there was a good book about the history of crays. It's the kind of thing you hear talked about but are unlikely to ever see."

That would be a great read.

My favorite Cray tidbit: for fun, Seymour Cray dug tunnels underneath his home, and had a lot of his breakthroughs while doing so.

   he attributed the secret of his success to "visits by elves" while he worked in the tunnel: 
   "While I'm digging in the tunnel, the elves will often come to me with solutions to my problem."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seymour_Cray#Personal_life

[sedachv]

My favorite Seymour Cray anecdote is from Alan Kay when he did an AMA here on hn a few months ago:

"Seymour Cray was a man of few words. I was there for three weeks before I realized he was not the janitor."

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11941941

[astrodust]

He'd also famously construct a sailboat, sail around in it, and then torch it at the end of the season so he'd have to construct another one.