I got to see the Cray Monsanto Corp owned when my grandpa retired (he was a senior engineering fellow in their old petroleum division, so he had some pull). I

I got to see the Cray Monsanto Corp owned when my grandpa retired (he was a senior engineering fellow in their old petroleum division, so he had some pull). I can't remember specifically if it was the Cray-2, but it was definitely one of the models with that shape of coolant fountain. Another crazy thing he showed me was the labs where they were developing the genetically engineered pesticide resistant grain strains. They were longish rectangular tunnel shaped concrete rooms about half below ground. All light was artificial. The last big thing I remember was an autosteroscopic display, sort of like those lenticular illusion card things you'd get as a kid in that era on steroids. He said they used it for CG visualizations of molecules in his dept. I was just 11 at the time so I was totally ignorant of the significance and controversy those plants represented. But I do remember grandpa pointing out the building the CEO and related staff worked out of. It was literally a bunker separated from everything else by big berms and security checkpoints that looked like it was securing a nuclear weapons depot.