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Megaprocessor Tour 1 - (fixed audio)

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What it is

A short tour of the Megaprocessor, a microprocessor built at enormous scale from tens of thousands of discrete transistors. The builder shows what the machine is made of and where it now lives, at the Centre for Computing History in Cambridge, where visitors can play Tetris on it.

Why Hacker News recommends it

HN commenters link it as the easy way to see the giant home-built CPU without hammering the author's website.

  • 2 people recommended it
  • 2 different months
  • 0 strong recommendations
  • first 2016, last 2024

What HN commenters said

  1. “A video tour is available on youtube, so we don't crush his website”

    Video tour of the huge home-built computer

    pavel_lishin, 2016-07 · Recommendation · in “Huge home-built computer used for Tetris”

  2. “It's pretty neat seeing him change the clock speed”

    Shows the clock speed being changed

    diydsp, 2016-08 · Recommendation · in “Megaprocessor – A micro-processor built large”

Excerpts from Hacker News comments, linked to the originals. Summaries and labels were written by a language model from those comments.

Topics: megaprocessor, discrete transistors, cpu design, retro computing, electronics

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