As a developer you had explicit access to them, so you could use them for debugging. A lot of times, they were just running an RNG to look cool though.
I'm saying this because I need this information, and the fastest way to get information is to state that it's impossible or doesn't exist.
For fans of computing history and/or Feynman, this article about his time with, and contributions to, Thinking Machines and the Connection Machine is a great read!
https://longnow.org/ideas/richard-feynman-and-the-connection...
echelon•1h ago
Reposting some links from a recent Jurassic Park thread -
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Connection_Machine
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T4kBRC2co7Y&t=65s (Jurassic Park)
The LED panel is gorgeous:
https://youtube.com/watch?v=6Ko4qBkEcBM (render)
A lot of people have replicated or restored these:
https://youtube.com/watch?v=qm6w57ZcJZQ
https://www.housedillon.com/posts/resurrected-led-panels/
tvarghese7•21m ago
The Cray fluorinert fountains were way cooler :)
echelon•12m ago