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There’s an old myth that Seymour Cray used to dig tunnels in his backyard.
by aYsY4dDQ2NrcNzA 3y ago
There’s an old myth that Seymour Cray used to dig tunnels in his backyard.
- leoc 3y agoJohn Rollwagen put the story about while chairman of Cray Research: https://web.archive.org/web/20080521163217/http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,967095,00.html https://web.archive.org/web/20080521163217/http://www.time.c... http://www.cs.man.ac.uk/~toby/writing/PCW/cray.htm http://www.cs.man.ac.uk/~toby/writing/PCW/cray.htm . There is at least one report that it was indeed just mythmaking, though: https://boingboing.net/2006/08/10/seymour-cray-liked-t.html https://boingboing.net/2006/08/10/seymour-cray-liked-t.html .
- thih9 3y agoWikipedia agrees, with sources too: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hobby_tunneling https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hobby_tunneling