From the “too much time on your hands” news desk. According to an article in TheRegister today, one Daryl Branch has built a scale model of the famous Cray-1 supercomputer as a place to house his home PC. A few specs on the vintage 1976 behemoth:
- 200,000 integrated circuits
- 3,400 printed circuit boards
- 60 miles of wire
- housed in less than 70 square feet of space
Branch describes the entire project from start to finish in this BitTech article.
I had the idea to create a scale model of a truly exceptional computer, one of the first supercomputers, the Cray-1. It was created to solve ‘Tomorrow’s Problems Today’, weather forecasting and climatology, petroleum research, structural analysis and nuclear research to name a few. [Daryl Branch]
Branch put two PC’s in the base. Each had three SATA disk drives and an optical drive. Amazing.