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echinopsis
Apr 13, 2004

by Fluffdaddy
http://www.huffingtonpost.com.au/2016/07/09/man-spends-51-000-on-supercomputer-that-only-plays-tetris/?utm_hp_ref=au-homepage

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echinopsis
Apr 13, 2004

by Fluffdaddy
idk how they can say it's a super computer co it's a bit lame

Asymmetric POSTer
Aug 17, 2005

this dude is dumb as hell

Moo Cowabunga
Jun 15, 2009

[Office Worker.




who? Echi if the other guy?

Asymmetric POSTer
Aug 17, 2005

Displeased Moo Cow posted:

who? Echi if the other guy?

the farmer (you)

Moo Cowabunga
Jun 15, 2009

[Office Worker.




nope.

Jonny 290
May 5, 2005



[ASK] me about OS/2 Warp

mishaq posted:

the farmer (you)

cant be moo cow. He's got the sense to stop chasing a sheep that jumps the fence every day

EIDE Van Hagar
Dec 8, 2000

Beep Boop
that looks cool, but it could have been more expensive and slower if he used lego logic gates or little buckets of water or something.

r u ready to WALK
Sep 29, 2001

More video and pictures here http://www.megaprocessor.com

It's a thing of beauty, if only all computers had this many blinking LEDs
Of course the media completely misses the point of building one and why it's called a megaprocessor

r u ready to WALK
Sep 29, 2001

I'm not sure if I can respect someone who is that bad at tetris though

Smythe
Oct 12, 2003

Kewl

echinopsis
Apr 13, 2004

by Fluffdaddy

error1 posted:

More video and pictures here http://www.megaprocessor.com

It's a thing of beauty, if only all computers had this many blinking LEDs
Of course the media completely misses the point of building one and why it's called a megaprocessor

the fact the memory has leds is actually pretty awesome

SpaceAceJase
Nov 8, 2008

and you
have proved
to be...

a real shitty poster,
and a real james
looks like jemaine clement

also sucks at tetris. loving dweeb

akadajet
Sep 14, 2003

jony ive aces
Jun 14, 2012

designer of the lomarf car


Buglord


someone buy this catte an account

Hammerite
Mar 9, 2007

And you don't remember what I said here, either, but it was pompous and stupid.
Jade Ear Joe
went to the british computer museum (next to Bletchley Park) a year or so ago, they have a giant decades-old computer there that has memory banks you can visually inspect, like with the one this guy built. The memory units are base-10, can't remember what the technical term for them is.

Gazpacho
Jun 18, 2004

by Fluffdaddy
Slippery Tilde
but can it talk to god

Gazpacho
Jun 18, 2004

by Fluffdaddy
Slippery Tilde
buy him an account though, so i can tell him that he sucks at tetris

Satellit3
Oct 21, 2008

mishaq posted:

this dude is dumb as hell

Gazpacho
Jun 18, 2004

by Fluffdaddy
Slippery Tilde

mishaq posted:

this dude is English as hell

Coolness Averted
Feb 20, 2007

oh don't worry, I can't smell asparagus piss, it's in my DNA

GO HOGG WILD!
🐗🐗🐗🐗🐗
make shelford great again

Moo Cowabunga
Jun 15, 2009

[Office Worker.




jony ive aces posted:



someone buy this catte an account

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nskyu4U_RD8

BONGHITZ
Jan 1, 1970

Sham bam bamina!
Nov 6, 2012

ƨtupid cat
that is not remotely a supercomputer. in fact it is the literal exacft opposite by any definition

echinopsis
Apr 13, 2004

by Fluffdaddy
megaprocessore.... not super computer..!!!!! mega as in the opposite of micro

Smythe
Oct 12, 2003

echinopsis posted:

megaprocessore.... not super computer..!!!!! mega as in the opposite of micro

Oh yea. Cool

Radio Paranoia
Jun 27, 2010

It is now safe to turn off your computer.

jony ive aces posted:



someone buy this catte an account

he already has one and has seen youre posting

Sweevo
Nov 8, 2007

i sometimes throw cables away

i mean straight into the bin without spending 10+ years in the box of might-come-in-handy-someday first

im a fucking monster

Hammerite posted:

went to the british computer museum (next to Bletchley Park) a year or so ago, they have a giant decades-old computer there that has memory banks you can visually inspect, like with the one this guy built. The memory units are base-10, can't remember what the technical term for them is.

dekatrons?

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Cat Face Joe
Feb 20, 2005

goth vegan crossfit mom who vapes




and a wonderful yosmas it was

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