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I'd be surprised if Zoe picked her title, but that's a big point: > Huge home-built computer used for Tetris This makes it seem like the guy just wanted to pl
by FussyZeus 10y ago
I'd be surprised if Zoe picked her title, but that's a big point:
> Huge home-built computer used for Tetris
This makes it seem like the guy just wanted to play Tetris and took an extremely roundabout way to do it, where in fact he built the thing specifically to show the insane complexity we all carry around in our pockets and take for granted (I include myself in that statement 100%). Modern computers are nothing short of an engineering marvel and something like this, which is only a millionth as powerful and not capable of nearly as much built from scratch takes up an entire room.
It reminds me a lot of that photo from not terribly long ago showing an Air Force crew unloading a 50 MB hard drive that was roughly the size of a walk in freezer.
A good comparison would be someone who built their own aircraft to demonstrate how insanely complex an aircraft is, and then the news story about it says "Local Man Builds own Plane to jump down to Florida for a Burger."