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		wumms on Nov 7, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Barcelona Supercomputing Center The "Convex C3480" from 1991 (at the end of the lower hallway): - 1GB RAM - 0.8GFlops - #1 in Spain in 1992 - USD 1M - huge tape drive! This source lists it at 0.4 GFlops though (search for C3480): https://www.rediris.es/jt/jt2004/archivo/ficheros/Mateo_Vale... - 16G disk storage - in service from 10/91-01/98

mofeing on Nov 7, 2023 [–]

I just showed it today to a friend. It's truly marvelous.

Just next to it there is a Connection Machine 2!

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