[geeks] New Cray?

[Dave Fischer]

nate at portents.com writes:

>> Actually, i think Apple did more to dilute it in their advertising
>> campaign than the US Government did.

>Apple referenced the government definition with an asterisk and a footnote
>in both the print and TV ad, as I recall.

>I take it you'd have preferred people had retained their 'undiluted'
>supercomputer mental association with the blinky lights on the Thinking
>Machines CM-5 front panels in Jurassic Park instead?

The Thinking Machines box in Jurassic Park makes a fantastic
home computer. (It's sitting about three feet from me.)

(It currently has as much actual CM5 hardware in it as it did when 
they shot that scene - ie: none. But it is a really nice rack...)

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