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Article #561Blinking lights on the Connection Machine
From: ent... Just Another Upright Monk...
Date: Fri, 22 Dec 1989 00:30
Date: Fri, 22 Dec 1989 00:30
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I heard a story that when Hillis and Minsky finished building the first Connection Machine, they stepped back and looked at it, and saw that it was kind of dull looking: it was a uniform, featureless black cube. Since they had already spent so many millions of dollars on it, they decided that, being a breakthrough and a revolutionary piece of hardware, it ought to look like one, and invested another couple of thousand dollars in nifty blinking lights. Can anyone substantiate this? -- The wicked flee when no one pursueth. Mark-Jason Dominus ent...@pawl.rpi.EDU entropy@rpitsmts (BITnet)
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Path: mbox-mo1.pugleaf.net!gmdzi!unido!mcsun!uunet!crdgw1!rpi!entropy From: ent...@pawl.rpi.edu (Just Another Upright Monkey) Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Subject: Blinking lights on the Connection Machine Message-ID: <?F?K#-@rpi.edu> Date: 22 Dec 89 00:30:34 GMT Distribution: alt Organization: Eaters of Wisdom Lines: 17 Posted: Fri Dec 22 01:30:34 1989 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit