Blew my mind age 4. Then found out about the imos transputer. And robotics magazine. 70's were popping. Ponging?
Inmos not imos, if my memory cells serve ne correctly. I lived overseas at the time, so I did not hear about the Cray till like 1980/81. My friend (we were like 12) had an idea to write a simulator for digital circuits, and I was puzzled as to why you would want to simulate a circuit when you can build it and test it. He was way ahead of his time.
XMOS is still keeping the Inmos dream alive, more or less!