by yesbabyyes
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- Nice, ordered.
For fans of computing history and/or Feynman, this article about his time with, and contributions to, Thinking Machines and the Connection Machine is a great read!
https://longnow.org/ideas/richard-feynman-and-the-connection...
by mark_l_watson
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- I want one of those t-shirts.
I was incredibly lucky to have been funded to write StarLisp code for the original CM-1 machine. CM-1 was a SIMD architecture, the later models were MIMD. Think of the physical layout being a 2D grid or processors with one edge being for I/O. That was a long time ago so I may have the details wrong.
by Bengalilol
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- > As an ironic footnote, a friend who worked for Steve Jobs at NeXT told me the CM-1 was the inspiration for the form of his NeXT machine.
<https://tamikothiel.com/cm/tshirt/index.html>
You can see it in action here
<https://www.paulrand.design/work/NeXT-Computers.html>
by boole1854
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- I ordered one of these a while back. Be warned that it will shrink if put in the dryer.
by darkstarsys
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- I still have my original one!
- I still have one of the long-sleeved original ones.
by mikestorrent
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- Bought one but it was too big... into the drawer of commemorative t's it goes
by tvarghese7
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- I thought of N-Cube machines when I saw it, CM didn't even occur to me.
by hettygreen
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- What were the LED's indicating?
- The Connection Machine series (which was featured in Jurassic Park) have the most beautiful LED panels.
Reposting some links from a recent Jurassic Park thread -
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Connection_Machine
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T4kBRC2co7Y&t=65s (Jurassic Park)
The LED panel is gorgeous:
https://youtube.com/watch?v=6Ko4qBkEcBM (render)
A lot of people have replicated or restored these:
https://youtube.com/watch?v=qm6w57ZcJZQ
https://www.housedillon.com/posts/resurrected-led-panels/
by richardfeynman
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- Thanks for this post.
- only europe and the us. but im in japan :(
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