Comment by leoc

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 .