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Anyone know how many CM-1s and CM-2s were made? I spent a few minutes googling and got nothing. Did they sell 10s of them or 100s of them or more?
by timmg 5y ago
Anyone know how many CM-1s and CM-2s were made? I spent a few minutes googling and got nothing. Did they sell 10s of them or 100s of them or more?
- convolvatron 5y agofrom my very hazy memory, there were only a few CM-1s made. maybe 10 in total outside TMC? CM-2s showed up at most supercomputer centers in the US, and even some universities. I think Yale(?) had an 8k. there were several at black sites - at least another 8 machines I guess. so at least tens, but I don't think 100s
- timmg 5y agoOk, thanks. It occured to me how cool it would be to pick one up on eBay. Obviously, I didn't find one. (Not that would have actually bought one.) I guess this is why :)
- jazzyjackson 5y agohaha - first thing I did when I saw the hypercube/nuerons tshirt was check ebay - no dice!
- fao_ 5y agoIn the article it's referred to as the "CM-1 tshirt design" so I plugged the first two words into duckduckgo and the first result led me to someone who is selling the tshirts: http://www.tamikothiel.com/cm/cm-tshirt.html http://www.tamikothiel.com/cm/cm-tshirt.html
- jazzyjackson 5y agohey thanks! goes to show i need to step out of my ebay bubble from time to time
- nickdothutton 5y agoI have one and the printing and material quality were very good.
- monocasa 5y agoWhich is actually the same site as the article. It's Tamiko Thiel's personal site.
- chr15p 5y agotop500.org for June 1994 lists 79 entries for Thinking Machines which is their high water mark, but it looks like most of those are CM-5s with about 20 being CM-2. So assuming some of the CM-5s are replacements for CM-1 and 2s I would expect they sold maybe 100 machines total, 150 absolute max across all three models.