Re: Blinking lights on the Connection Machine

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From: lan... Howard A. Landman x61391
Date: Wed, 03 Jan 1990 00:08

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In article <?F?K#-@rpi.edu> ent...@pawl.rpi.edu (Just Another Upright Monkey) writes:
>I heard a story that when Hillis and Minsky finished
>building the first Connection Machine, 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?

Not directly, but I was told on good authority that the very first
application for the CM was a "banner"-like program to put a
message up on the lights.

	Howard A. Landman
	lan...@eng.sun.com -or- sun!landman

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