So 2GB of memory, 4 cores at ~250Mhz (was the foreground processor the same? Brochure seemed unclear), runs a *nix. About 15 years ahead of a late 90's Pentium I guess, but more ram. Just need the spare 16 square feet of floor space.
And don't forget that you also have to get rid of 300kW of heat. Having worked in a supercomputing center, this is a major problem — think about how quickly you have to shut your computers down if your heat exchanger goes down, before the room gets too hot to enter.
Roomer has it that the original Cray 1 design didn't have a tunable cooling unit. One day the test machine crashed, and the engineers came in the next morning to see a giant icy glacier.
