My dad worked for Westinghouse and back in the early 1990s they had an open house day on a Saturday for family to come in and look around. I don't recall what model SGI it was but it had the dialbox attached. That probably spurred my love of workstations and big iron. It was amazing to see the server rooms with the raised floors and desks full of Sun and Apollo boxes. They even had a Cray-2 I got to see and have a seat on. The "control room" for that just had rows of terminals and monitors all over.
I asked him whatever happened with the Cray hardware and he said it was offered to Ukraine or the Czech Republic who declined it for a bunch of desktops. He said in the end it was scrapped :(
Found a pic
http://archive.computerhistory.org/resou...523.lg.jpg
