It's saturday night and the mods are asleep, time to post photos of classic supercomputer boards.
no rules, just supercomputers.
more nodes == more super
the software in the NeXT made it a workstation, the hardware made it a PC, and the unit sales made it a supercomputer.
classic flavor round Cray
new fangled flat Cray
superb wirewrapping also counts
IBM 702 cordwood construction was super in its day
Speaking of IBM, the 7030 Stretch had an optional "Hand of God".
@th never realized that the cmos battery in the NeXT was actually in a battery holder! that was pretty advanced for the time where hardly andybody cared for the time in 6+ years.
@adorfer it does make it super easy to remove when putting the system into storage
@th nice way of phrasing it, but the hardware was more like other 'workstations' of it's time like the SparcStation 10 or some IRIX systems, not so much PC-like.
@th I just learned this morning that i860 and i960 are different CPUs :o!
@th why did I read nudes
@th Oh I guess the row of LEDs at the front
@penguin42 if it does't have blinking lights, is it really a supercomputer? https://trmm.net/CM-2/
@th @penguin42 Or some old Soviet flavor boards from the MIR space station.
@artelse @penguin42 the Apollo AGC is also pretty super
@th @penguin42 Love the routing detail on this Soviet board.
@th okay I'm going to bite on this thread. Do these count? They're hanging on the wall of my office..
@RoyGreenhilt every office should have a Unibus or Q-Bus machine. https://trmm.net/PDP-11/

@th oh my god. That looks so much like the /34 I built way back when. RX01, RL drive(s), and... TU58?

My days of having fully built 11s in my house are over (though I have a PiDP/11 that is always in the background during my video calls :)

Also everyone should own at least one VT 1xx terminal.