When TM was at its peak, I heard comments from people in the DoD/intel community that the primary value of having a Thinking Machines computer was recruiting va

When TM was at its peak, I heard comments from people in the DoD/intel community that the primary value of having a Thinking Machines computer was recruiting value. At least one company set one up in a very prominent place so that new developer recruits would see it and think the company was cutting edge. They rarely if ever actually developed on it because they found it just wasn't practical to write (or rewrite) code bases to take advantage of the parallel architecture. (and DARPA had paid for it, so it didnt actually cost the company that much).