On 14/07/2013 12:43 PM, Orchid Win7 v1 wrote:

> It takes up 16 square feet of floor space and weighs
> 5500 pounds. It eats 195 kW of electricity, and it's liquid-cooled.

In case, you were wondering, today we would call that 1.5 square meters 
of floor space, and 2.5 metric tonnes.

And 195 kW is... still 195 kW.

For giggles, 195 kW is about 260 horsepower. It's also enough 
electricity to run between 30 to 60 households. To run one computer. 30 
to 60 houses. Ouch. No wonder MIT was billing people $410/hour to borrow 
theirs...

(It appears Cray-2 was the first Cray system to run UNIX.)

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