"computational necromancy" - homemade Cray-1A

[Araelus]

Chris Fenton, an electrical engineer living in NYC, works on modern super-computers, but he always wanted one of his own.

This one weighs a lot less than 5.5 tons.

http://chrisfenton.com/wp-content/up...8/img_2311.jpg

It also cost less than the adjusted $31 million ($8.86 million in 1977).

Now if you remember correctly, the Cray-1A ran at a blistering-fast 80 MHz and you'll never use up all 32 megabytes of memory!

Totally useless by today's standards, yet somehow very cool that he bothered to look up the original architecture and mimic it on a dev board.

His only problem? The original Cray-1 software (OS, compilers, etc.) is unavailable.
But if you know how to find a copy, leave a comment on his blog.

Fenton also makes his own notebook computers

http://chrisfenton.com/wp-content/up..._frontview.jpg

and a gas-powered pickle cannon!? (table breaking)

Spoiler: show

WARNING: DON’T TRY THIS PART AT HOME

http://chrisfenton.com/wp-content/up...1-1024x190.jpg

[Surealistic]

while i do give him points for "authenticity" with hardware specs, i have to take them all away for 2 reasons,

1. looks like ass, not to be mean, but i love a good computer mod, and this just doesnt do it for me, it feels as though he didnt really take his time, he wanted to make it so he did, as fast as possible, and it shows
2. hes a day late and a dollar short http://www.bit-tech.net/modding/case...-daryl-brach/1

this is how you do a computer mod, this guy is absolutely amazing, now i know not everyone can do what this guy did, but if your going to make a modded case, take your time, put some effort into it, and make it something truely special
http://englishrussia.com/index.php/2...ll-e-case-mod/