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Article #573Re: Blinking lights on the Connection Machine
From: r... REB - Tennessee Lamb
Date: Tue, 02 Jan 1990 21:08
Date: Tue, 02 Jan 1990 21:08
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>Much the same was true in WarGames when the CRAY and VAX machines they took
>pictures of were so "blank" they built this machine with many lights as
>the machine that did all of the work.
Apparantly in War Games this wasn't good enough ... they put a person -
complete with clipboard - in walking around the machine taking notes.
reb
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