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A while ago some of us helped Chris move his machines from his office on the 8th floor of a building in downtown Portland down into the building’s basement. I don’t think I ever put the pictures of this up anywhere. Doing so gives me an opportunity to try out this Exhibit plugin that I’ve been considering.

The machines in question were noteworthy. They were very powerful for their time but that time was, well, a decade ago. They are from the era of solid metal and large fans all rolled into a heavy chassis the size of a North American household appliance on casters. Sun sparc center 2000s and Cray 6400s to be exact.

The path from the office to the basement passed through the elevators, through the lobby and out onto the sidewalk, around the building and in a service door, and down another elevator into the gargantuan basement. You can imagine the looks five scruffy guys got while rolling these noisy machines around the corner of a building downtown on a weekend.

Also, it was raining.