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    Megaprocessor Tour 1 - (fixed audio)

    Megaprocessor

    2 HN recommenders · recommended in 3 months, 2016–2024

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    5:15 · 479K views · Jun 23, 2016

    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.

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

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    3 comments from Hacker News

    1. @diydspAug 2016· in “Megaprocessor – A micro-processor built large”

      The amazing thing about this is that you can't critique. I mean, you can say anything you want, but you can't stop it or change this guy's mind. :) It's pretty neat seeing him change the clock speed: this video

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    2. @pavel_lishinJul 2016· in “Huge home-built computer used for Tetris”

      A video tour is available on youtube, so we don't crush his website: this video Spoiler alert: his Tetris skills are inversely proportional to his computer building skills.

      RecommendsView on HN
    3. @moefhApr 2024· in “Show HN: I made a programmable computer from NAND gates”

      There's this one that goes one step beyond that, it's built out of 40,000 discrete transistors: this video EDIT: there's more information here: [LINK]

      CitesView on HN