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Dates: during 1980-1989
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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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Technology: Just Dig While You Work | 3/28/1988 | See Source »

...then I get stumped, and I'm not making progress. So I quit, and I go and work in the tunnel. It takes me an hour or so to dig four inches and put in the 4-by-4s. Now, as you can see, I'm up in the Wisconsin woods, and there are elves in the woods. So when they see me leave, they come into my office and solve all the problems I'm having. Then I go back up and work some more...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Technology: Just Dig While You Work | 3/28/1988 | See Source »

Harvard's first-place finish in the ITCA Easterns qualified it for the USTA/ITCA National Indoor Tournament in Wisconsin earlier this month. It was the first apperance for the Crimson in the tournament...

Author: By Michael J. Lartigue, | Title: Netwomen Set to Serve to the West's Best | 3/23/1988 | See Source »

...netwomen defeated North-western and Wisconsin, but fell to Miami and Georgia. The Hurricanes and Bulldogs are ranked sixth and 10th, respectively...

Author: By Michael J. Lartigue, | Title: Netwomen Set to Serve to the West's Best | 3/23/1988 | See Source »

NCAA Tournament: This weekend's quarterfinal action pits Michigan State (27-14-3) against Minnesota (30-8-2), Wisconsin (30-12-1) versus St. Lawrence (26-7), Bowling Green (29-11-2) at Maine (30-6-2) and Merrimack (34-4) against Lake Superior State...

Author: By Julio R. Varela, | Title: Underdogs | 3/22/1988 | See Source »

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