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...Cray Research, meanwhile, has had other troubles. Sales are sluggish, profits are down and its stock price has plummeted. With R. and D. expenses growing nearly 35% a year, Chairman John Rollwagen found himself having to choose between two projects: the Cray-3 and the C-90, an extension of the company's bread-and-butter Cray Y-MP line...
...Rollwagen tells it, the decision turned on a chat he and Cray had four weeks ago in Colorado Springs. "I said to him, 'It's not working, is it, Seymour? It isn't feeling right.' " The two discussed options short of a total split, but Cray kept pressing. "It's almost like he forced me to turn the page," says Rollwagen. "He said, 'Isn't there ((an option)) that would be even cleaner? Let's get on to that one.' It just became very clear to the two of us that this was the right thing...
Where does the world's foremost designer of high-speed computers get his inspiration? Apparently deep in a dirt tunnel beneath his Wisconsin home, according to John Rollwagen, the chairman of Cray Research. As Rollwagen tells it, Seymour Cray, the company's elusive founder, has been dividing his time between building the next generation of supercomputers and digging an underground tunnel that starts below his Chippewa Falls house and heads toward the nearby woods. "He's been working at it for some time now," says Rollwagen, who reports that the tunnel is 8 ft. high, 4 ft. wide and lined...
...Rollwagen knows that Cray is only half kidding and that some of the designer's greatest inspirations come when he is digging. Says the chairman: "The real work happens when Seymour is in the tunnel...
...good for the team to have Chris as a captain with Nina, because Chris is proof that you don't have to have rowed before college to do it well," Rollwagen says of the relatively inexperienced captain...