"War Games" computer for sale.

[witeshark17]

Funny part about that whole thing is my cell phone probably has more processing power, and memory than the WOPR, yet it's no where near as advanced.

That's a very good and interesting point!

[madjr]

Strange game; the only winning move is NOT to play...

i saw the newer version yesterday

[bwhite82]

I phreaking love this movie, own the DVD. As far as the price goes...it is worth as much as someone is willing to pay for it, that is all.

[3rdalbum]

I phreaking love this movie

Dad joke!

[bwhite82]

Dad joke!

Only geeks would be able to catch that.

[MooPi]

Can you imagine the Beowulf Cluster you could build with that much cash?

[Letrazzrot]

Funny part about that whole thing is my cell phone probably has more processing power, and memory than the WOPR, yet it's no where near as advanced.

Out of curiosity (yeah, I'm crazy like that), I did a very quick (and unscientific) research that yields this:

Cray X-MP4 ($10-$15 million usd): 850 MFLOPS (a supercomputer released around 1984)

ARM Cortex-A8 (the Nexus is <$600 usd): 2000 MIPS (found in a higher-end phone)

MFLOPS = million floating point operations per second
MIPS = million instructions per second

Comparing MFLOPS to MIPS is akin to comparing apples to oranges, but I suppose it provides a general idea.

Comparing the Cray to a laptop's graphics processor may be slightly more meaningful:

GeForce 9600M: 100 GFLOPS (100,000 MFLOPS, @ theoretical shader processing rate)

Times have a-changed...

[lisati]

Funny part about that whole thing is my cell phone probably has more processing power, and memory than the WOPR, yet it's no where near as advanced.

Could possibly say something similar about my DVD/HDD DVR, which has ethernet and USB capabilities (pity it isn't DVB-T capable) and cost a fraction of the price.

[swoll1980]

Out of curiosity (yeah, I'm crazy like that), I did a very quick (and unscientific) research that yields this:

Cray X-MP4 ($10-$15 million usd): 850 MFLOPS (a supercomputer released around 1984)

ARM Cortex-A8 (the Nexus is <$600 usd): 2000 MIPS (found in a higher-end phone)

MFLOPS = million floating point operations per second
MIPS = million instructions per second

Comparing MFLOPS to MIPS is akin to comparing apples to oranges, but I suppose it provides a general idea.

Comparing the Cray to a laptop's graphics processor may be slightly more meaningful:

GeForce 9600M: 100 GFLOPS (100,000 MFLOPS, @ theoretical shader processing rate)

Times have a-changed...

I can't believe they spent that much money on the Cray. It's just ridiculous.