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		pflanze on Sept 7, 2011 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: A 1970s Cray-1 hard drive has been imaged > 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.)

mjb on Sept 7, 2011 [–]

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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