The Bendix G-15 is a near 70-year old computer that’s awesome, but really, what can 460 vacuum tubes and 3,400 diodes actually do? Well, it’s a general purpose computer, so it can do anything you want. To prove that point, let’s hook up with some very smart people from CERN who work on the ATLAS experiment on the Large Hadron Collider, and run a brand new algorithm on 70-year old hardware!
Massive thank you to System Source for the opportunity to work on this machine: https://museum.syssrc.com/
Chapters 0:00 Standing on the shoulders of giants 3:30 What can a 70 year old computer even do? 5:50 Why can’t we just run BASIC on this thing? 7:21 How to add two numbers in BASIC 8:39 How to add two numbers in Intercom 1000 15:21 Let’s bump up the difficulty level by going to CERN! (CM) 20:37 Topoclustering! 25:17 Porting C to Intercom on the Bendix 28:46 Running new math on very old hardware 31:10 Look at that 28” platen go! 32:39 Is this the end? 34:44 もぐもぐタイム