Word: cray
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...amount of dollars spent on personal computers exceeded that spent on television sets; the total amount of E-mail exceeded that of surface mail; the total volume of traffic on telephone lines exceeded that of voice traffic. Last year's average PC had more computing power than the 1988 Cray computer. A Ford Taurus had more computing power than the lunar-landing module...
DIED. SEYMOUR CRAY, 71, of injuries resulting from a car crash; in Colorado Springs, Colorado. A brilliant and legendarily eccentric electronics engineer who put together an automatic telegraph machine when he was 10 years old, Cray built in the 1960s what many consider the world's first supercomputers. Not all his work was as constructive: for many years he built a new sailboat every winter and burned it, inexplicably, every fall...
AILING. SEYMOUR CRAY, 71, the Thomas Edison of the supercomputer; after suffering a broken neck and severe head injuries in a highway crash; in Colorado Springs, Colorado...
...small group of people for years who had more personal than financial gain from the music, and they stuck by it for years when it didn't make any money," says Mike Kappus of the Rosebud Agency, a management company that represents bluesmen John Lee Hooker and Robert Cray. "It's a very real, emotional music. If Isaac has a true love for the music, he has to be very careful about its legacy and not intentionally or unintentionally, five years down the road, create the impression that the Blues Brothers are the best-known icon of the blues...