Minnesota Supercomputer centre

I worked there from 1986 to 1989 during the time we had the quad and serial 2003 of the Cray-2 (and a Cyber 205 and ETA-10) which got moved into this building from Lauderdale. Bruce Loftis is in the photo looking down on the computer room. Dean Kopesky is the guy on teh right side of the desk on the computer room floor. Tom (forgot the last name) is over by the tapes… I think the later picture is in the mid or late1990s, but that is just a guess. The Cray-2 in the later picture was one with 512 MW of memory (2X serial 2003). It was donated by John Sell to the Seattle Computer History museam and they planned to get it running. Unfortunately, Paul Allen died and his children didn’t have the same passion for preserving this history and the museum contents were auctioned off (including serial 12 of the Cray 1 which was also at the University of Minnesota) and this Cray 2. The building was an old bottle factory that was repurposed as a supercomputing center. It is now the Minnesota Pickleball Club. I have since moved to Bainbridge Island, Washington where Pickleball was invented. I guess you could say I have come full circle…