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Re:A 1970s Cray-1 hard drive has been imaged by pflanze on Wednesday September 07, 2011 @02:59PM (#2970906)
> 30ms for a Cray 1 was only 2400 clock cycles

2.4 million clock cycles. (According to Wikipedia, the Cray-1 had a 80 MHz clock, which you also mention in your other post.)

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Re:A 1970s Cray-1 hard drive has been imaged by mjb on Wednesday September 07, 2011 @03:31PM (#2971025)
You are indeed correct. That's kind of how it worked in my head (about 12x change) but I didn't type it that way for some reason.
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