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Re: For Sale -- Convex C1/XP Mini-Supercomputer

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From: Steve Warren
Date: Thu, 16 May 1991 20:46
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In article <1991May13.140811.13331@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu> sgombosi@isis.UUCP (Stephen O. Gombosi) writes:
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>Yeah, and if you rip out all those messy wires, they make GREAT stereo
>cabinets! :-)
>
>- Steve Gombosi   sgombosi@isis.cs.du.edu

Wires?  We don't need no steenking wires.

You must be thinking of Cray.

(Convex uses backplanes for board interconnects)

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From: swarren@convex.com (Steve Warren)
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Subject: Re: For Sale -- Convex C1/XP Mini-Supercomputer
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Date: 16 May 91 20:46:49 GMT
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