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Check out these pictures of an old-school supercomputer – this is the Cray X-MP 48, installed in the Chilton Computing Lab in 1986. This behemoth had 64 Mb of RAM and came with a free sofa.

cray x-mp 48

The snazzy seating area provided somewhere to sit, relax, chat with friends and compute things…

the first fully-integrated sofaputer

Is it me or does it feel like the Cray is watching you?