Convex C-1 computer?

[Robert Wells]

I'd appreciate any experience or opinions people might have about the
Convex C-1 computer.  The company is in Richardson, Texas.  The machine
costs $0.5-1.0M, runs under 4.2bsd, and has vector register hardware
instructions which are supported by their own vectorizing compiler.  It is
a 10 Mips machine, and can do up to about 40 MFlops for vector ops (i.e.,
about 1/4 of a Cray-1).

Is this a credible company and machine?  I would appreciate any comments,
opinions, rumors, speculations, contact persons, etc.  Thanks, Robert