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by hoppp 367 days ago
The cray 1 did look futuristic like something out of star trek.

It kinda reminded me of the trash can mac. I wonder if it was inspiration for it

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> It kinda reminded me of the trash can mac. I wonder if it was inspiration for it

Ironically the trash can Mac actually looked strikingly similar in size and shape to actual small trash cans that were all over the Apple campus when I worked there. I’d see them in the cafeteria every day. They were aluminum though, but otherwise very similar. I always wondered if they had anything to do with the design of the computer, even if only subconsciously.

If I ever have reason to build a Pi cluster, I'm putting in a Cray X-MP shaped case.
Related: a Pi Pico cluster that looks like a Cray computer https://hackaday.com/2023/04/09/parallel-computing-on-the-pi...