THE VIDEO SHELF · homebuilt computer hardware
Megaprocessor Tour 1 - (fixed audio)
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.
Why HN readers recommended it
HN commenters link it as the easy way to see the giant home-built CPU without hammering the author's website.
This is a summary from the source dataset, not an endorsement by Hacker News or the video creator.
Video & recommendation details
- Creator / channel
- Megaprocessor
- Topic
- homebuilt computer hardware
- Format
- demo
- Level
- general
- HN recommenders in dataset
- 2
- HN mentions in dataset
- 3
- Recommendation years in dataset
- 2016–2024
These counts and years describe the included Hacker News records; they are not YouTube views or the video’s publication date.
From the original HN conversations
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A video tour is available on youtube, so we don't crush his website: [VIDEO] Spoiler alert: his Tetris skills are inversely proportional to his computer building skills.
pavel_lishin on Hacker News · 2016-07
In Huge home-built computer used for TetrisThe 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: [VIDEO]
diydsp on Hacker News · 2016-08
In Megaprocessor – A micro-processor built large
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