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Or "Do Not Erase!"

• Beltiras 8y ago
  Or "Do not think about it. Tantamount to observation which will interfere with the calculations."
• rbanffy 8y ago
  Now I imagined replacing the glass panes with transparent LCDs or LED displays that would give an idea of system status at a glance. These machines are, like the supercomputers I mentioned, meant to be displayed as a status symbol.
  • mschaef 8y ago
    > replacing the glass panes with transparent LCDs or LED displays I guess the CM-1/2/200 machines are the quintessential example of this. The Cray-2's cooling system isn't an active display, but it gets style points too (IMHO). (But...I've worked in a few places that used glass windows (or other glass surfaces) as whiteboards... That's really what I was thinking of. :-) )
    • rbanffy 8y ago
      The Cray-2 had some indicator lights on the top of each lobe. I'm not sure how helpful they were to gain an understanding of what the computer was doing. I can't tell how much work my home cluster is doing by looking at the ethernet switch LEDs. The LCD would nicely replicate the window-as-whiteboard experience though, at the sacrifice of some readability, because the object behind the glass is so interesting.