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Hard to pack those circular cray machines together though. And people would keep sitting on them.

Check out the Paul Allen auction https://www.christies.com/en/stories/paul-allen-computer-col...

You don't want to pack them too tight for heating/cooling reasons; it was never intended to be 'compact'. Plus, you'd loose the cool factor of having a Cray in your datacenter to show off to visitors.

> Cray in your datacenter

You’ll want it next to your lobby, in the “computer aquarium”.

Given its historical importance and rarity, $5,000–$8,000 for a working Alto seems like a bargain.

Somebody who cares as much as I do, please buy this!

Ah it's got the Altair 8800 !

Cray was fascinating but the Altair changed everything and I'd oddly rather play with a working Altair in a museum than a Cray

https://www.nutsvolts.com/magazine/article/micro_memories_20...

https://www.nutsvolts.com/uploads/wygwam/NV_0103_Driscoll_P4...

You can play with mine.

    docker run -p 8823:8823 rbanffy/altair-mpm

to be fair it does look like a bench seat

Wait, serious question: was it not a bench seat? I've always assumed it was, and a quick Google finds several places claiming they were bench seats, though none of them terribly authoritative.

The "bench" exterior was an aesthetically minded comfortable seat, but inside was much of the cooling system.

Filled with that ... coolant.

Pics or it didn't happen?

The Bench:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cray-1#/media/File:Cray-1-p101...

Yes, you can sit on them. I have.

Perfectly functional as a seat.

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