← Back to context Comment by aYsY4dDQ2NrcNzA 2 years ago There’s an old myth that Seymour Cray used to dig tunnels in his backyard. 2 comments aYsY4dDQ2NrcNzA Reply leoc 2 years ago John Rollwagen put the story about while chairman of Cray Research:https://web.archive.org/web/20080521163217/http://www.time.c...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 . thih9 2 years ago Wikipedia agrees, with sources too: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hobby_tunneling
leoc 2 years ago John Rollwagen put the story about while chairman of Cray Research:https://web.archive.org/web/20080521163217/http://www.time.c...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 .
thih9 2 years ago Wikipedia agrees, with sources too: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hobby_tunneling
John Rollwagen put the story about while chairman of Cray Research:
https://web.archive.org/web/20080521163217/http://www.time.c...
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 .
Wikipedia agrees, with sources too: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hobby_tunneling