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Seymour Cray
     
         The founder of {Cray Research} and designer of
        several of their {supercomputers}.
     
        Cray has been a charismatic yet somewhat reclusive figure.  He
        began Cray Research in Minnesota in 1972.  In 1988, Cray moved
        his {Cray-3} project to Colorado Springs.  The next year, Cray
        Research spun it off to create {Cray Computer}.  In 1989, Cray
        left Cray Research and started Cray Computer Corporation in Colorado
        Springs.
     
        His quest to build a faster computer using new-generation
        materials failed in 1995, and his bankruptcy cost half a
        billion dollars and more than 400 jobs.  The company was
        unable to raise $20 million needed to finish the {Cray-4} and
        filed for bankruptcy in March 1995.
     
        In the summer of 1996, Cray started a Colorado Springs-based
        company called {SRC Computers, Inc.}  "We think we'll build
        computers, but who knows what kind or how," Cray said at the
        time.  "We'll talk it over and see if we can come up with a
        plan."
     
        On 1996-09-22, aged 70, Cray broke his neck in a car
        accident.  Surgery for massive head injuries and swelling of
        the brain leaving him in a critical and unstable condition.
     
        (1997-03-02)