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To: Triffin who wrote (1407)	5/31/2002 5:38:31 PM
From: TechTrader42	Read Replies (1) of 1487

The CI's are calculated with a state-of-the-art dream system, Triffin -- an Altair 8800, assembled from a kit. We also have a Digital PDP-8. There was a time when we ran CI calculations on an ENIAC, but it generated so much heat that our founder's cryonic storage vat thawed out repeatedly. Further, the CI's, while profitable, weren't profitable enough to pay for 100,000 watts of power. We sold the ENIAC to a commune of permabulls bent on living in the past. I see that the IBM 100 teraflop computer can forecast when it's going to rain in Queens. "Instead of just saying it's going to rain in New York City, they'll be able to say it's going to rain in Queens, or Manhattan," said Peter Ungaro, vice president of high performance computing for IBM. The CI's have so few subscribers in Queens that at this time we're not in need of this forecasting feature. Nice failed ramp job today. What a pity.

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