My dad worked in Facilities at the Minnesota Supercomputer Center (or maybe it was Cray, or maybe it was Control Data, or maybe it was NetASPx, or maybe it was

My dad worked in Facilities at the Minnesota Supercomputer Center (or maybe it was Cray, or maybe it was Control Data, or maybe it was NetASPx, or maybe it was something else, I was never clear to be honest) here on Washington Ave in Minneapolis. Sometimes as a kid in the 90s, he'd take me in to follow him around for a day. I definitely remember looking at the server racks and supercomputers they had on their main floor, watching automated tape backup machines move tapes around, all these crazy water cooling setups with colored lights, stuff like that. I even got to see the big diesel backup generators in the basement once. But the standout was the decommissioned Cray-1 they had as a seating bench in the front lobby. Could walk inside the unit and look at all the wires and circuit boards connected together, or just sit on the nice padded bench and have a chat. If you really knew what you were doing, you could lift up the seat panels and have a look at more boards and wires. Fun stuff.