State of the art

[William Donzelli]

> It simply doesn't seem that long ago that Neil Lincoln was telling me
> how wonderful his liquid nitrogen-cooled high-density CMOS vector
> supercomputer was going to be in that it would be the first to break
> the 10 Gflop mark.  (This was the ill-fated ETA Systems one and only
> ETA-10 supercomputer).

You have just made a classic big iron apples to oranges comparison.
 
> Times certainly do change.  Does anyone know what became of very few
> ETA-10's that were built?  Museum or landfill?

The air cooled "Pipers" were the most common, with maybe a few dozen
(?) made. One ended up at a high school. I knew of another at a school
that was "improperly decommisioned" and stuffed in a back room to hide the
evidence. I do not know what happened to either one.

William Donzelli
aw288 at osfn.org