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ent...@pawl.rpi.edu (Just Another Upright Monkey) writes:
>I heard a story that when Hillis and Minsky finished
>building the first Connection Machine, they stepped back and
>looked at it, and saw that it was kind of dull looking:  it
>was a uniform, featureless black cube.
>
>Since they had already spent so many millions of dollars on
>it, they decided that, being a breakthrough and a
>revolutionary piece of hardware, it ought to look like one,
>and invested another couple of thousand dollars in nifty
>blinking lights.
>
>Can anyone substantiate this?

	The way I heard it was that it was on public display from
	the front reception area by way of a huge window.  Upper
	management didn't think it looked high tech enough, so
	they said to make some more blinking lights.

    aBp.
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