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This is great. It somewhat reminded me of Steve Ciarcia's build of a Mandelbrot-generating supercomputer from around 1990. That was also made from microcontro

by rwmj 4mo ago

This is great. It somewhat reminded me of Steve Ciarcia's build of a Mandelbrot-generating supercomputer from around 1990. That was also made from microcontrollers (Intel 8052 in that case).

palmotea 4mo ago
Do you have a link? As far as I can tell you're referring to a BYTE magazine article, but I can only find vague references to it, not anything specific enough that would allow me to locate it.
- rwmj 4mo ago
  It was in Byte circa 1989-1991 & I've been trying to search for it with no luck so far. FOUND IT! https://archive.org/details/1982-10-byte-magazine-october-1-byte-magazine-21533/1988%2012%20BYTE%2013-12%20-%20Byte%20Magazine_21640/page/327/mode/2up https://archive.org/details/1982-10-byte-magazine-october-1-...
  - nekusar 4mo ago
    https://archive.org/details/eu_BYTE-1988-11_OCR/page/n6/mode/1up https://archive.org/details/eu_BYTE-1988-11_OCR/page/n6/mode... Page 399 This one as well. :)
    - palmotea 4mo ago
      Just cleaning up the links for future searchers and adding the first part: Steve Ciarcia, CIARCIA’S CIRCUIT CELLAR BYTE Octover 1988, A Supercomputer Part 1. Steve begins a supercomputer project by looking at multiprocessing basics. https://archive.org/details/1982-10-byte-magazine-october-1-byte-magazine-21533/1988%2010%20BYTE%20-%20Byte%20Magazine_21604/page/282/mode/2up https://archive.org/details/1982-10-byte-magazine-october-1-... (page 283 in the magazine, page 315 in the PDF) BYTE November 1988, A Supercomputer Part 2. Steve continues the supercomputer project with a look at the Mandelbrot set. https://archive.org/details/eu_BYTE-1988-11_OCR/page/n465/mode/2up https://archive.org/details/eu_BYTE-1988-11_OCR/page/n465/mo... (page 399 in the magazine, page 466 in the PDF) BYTE December 1988, A Supercomputer Part 3. This final part looks at hardware nuts and bolts and also at the driver program. https://archive.org/details/1982-10-byte-magazine-october-1-byte-magazine-21533/1988%2012%20BYTE%2013-12%20-%20Byte%20Magazine_21640/page/327/mode/2up https://archive.org/details/1982-10-byte-magazine-october-1-... (page 327 in the magazine and PDF)
ThrowawayTestr 4mo ago
The computer was animating a Julia set in one of the clips.

by rwmj 4mo ago

This is great. It somewhat reminded me of Steve Ciarcia's build of a Mandelbrot-generating supercomputer from around 1990. That was also made from microcontrollers (Intel 8052 in that case).

palmotea 4mo ago

Do you have a link? As far as I can tell you're referring to a BYTE magazine article, but I can only find vague references to it, not anything specific enough that would allow me to locate it.

rwmj 4mo ago
It was in Byte circa 1989-1991 & I've been trying to search for it with no luck so far. FOUND IT! https://archive.org/details/1982-10-byte-magazine-october-1-byte-magazine-21533/1988%2012%20BYTE%2013-12%20-%20Byte%20Magazine_21640/page/327/mode/2up https://archive.org/details/1982-10-byte-magazine-october-1-...
- nekusar 4mo ago
  https://archive.org/details/eu_BYTE-1988-11_OCR/page/n6/mode/1up https://archive.org/details/eu_BYTE-1988-11_OCR/page/n6/mode... Page 399 This one as well. :)
  - palmotea 4mo ago
    Just cleaning up the links for future searchers and adding the first part: Steve Ciarcia, CIARCIA’S CIRCUIT CELLAR BYTE Octover 1988, A Supercomputer Part 1. Steve begins a supercomputer project by looking at multiprocessing basics. https://archive.org/details/1982-10-byte-magazine-october-1-byte-magazine-21533/1988%2010%20BYTE%20-%20Byte%20Magazine_21604/page/282/mode/2up https://archive.org/details/1982-10-byte-magazine-october-1-... (page 283 in the magazine, page 315 in the PDF) BYTE November 1988, A Supercomputer Part 2. Steve continues the supercomputer project with a look at the Mandelbrot set. https://archive.org/details/eu_BYTE-1988-11_OCR/page/n465/mode/2up https://archive.org/details/eu_BYTE-1988-11_OCR/page/n465/mo... (page 399 in the magazine, page 466 in the PDF) BYTE December 1988, A Supercomputer Part 3. This final part looks at hardware nuts and bolts and also at the driver program. https://archive.org/details/1982-10-byte-magazine-october-1-byte-magazine-21533/1988%2012%20BYTE%2013-12%20-%20Byte%20Magazine_21640/page/327/mode/2up https://archive.org/details/1982-10-byte-magazine-october-1-... (page 327 in the magazine and PDF)

ThrowawayTestr 4mo ago

The computer was animating a Julia set in one of the clips.