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echelonyesterday at 2:38 PM1 replyview on HN

As is the supercomputer.

It's the Thinking Machine Connection Machine CM-5

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Connection_Machine

https://www.jurassic-pedia.com/cm-5-thinking-machine/

The LED panel is gorgeous:

https://youtube.com/watch?v=6Ko4qBkEcBM

A lot of people have replicated or restored these:

https://youtube.com/watch?v=qm6w57ZcJZQ

https://www.housedillon.com/posts/resurrected-led-panels/

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I've always hoped the film series would be rebooted back to the original novel. The first film was a masterpiece, and everything that's followed has been increasingly awful. Dinosaurs and cloning are way too cool for that amount of disrespect.

I'd kill for an R-rated horror film (think Alien) based on the book, especially if it were set in 1980 and deeply scientific like the original. That was the only film in the series with believably smart characters, each pursuing complex motivations, with fulfilling character arcs. The plot focused on the people, and dinosaurs were the dressing.


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linsomniacyesterday at 4:49 PM

The National Cryptologic Museum outside Fort Meade has one or a few Connection Machines, a Cray, and all sorts of other computing and other gear. It's quite a worthwhile tour, IMHO. https://www.nsa.gov/museum/

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