Comment by grishka

Comment by grishka 4 days ago

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Oh, I visited it in 2015. There were some very odd-looking huge boards with pins inserted into them that I assumed were ROMs. Also panels that were clearly intended to display some part of the state of the CPU. Here's some pictures I took:

https://sun9-70.userapi.com/impf/c621621/v621621231/20f0d/vL...

https://sun9-67.userapi.com/impf/c621621/v621621231/20f5d/i8...

https://sun9-28.userapi.com/impf/c621621/v621621231/20f53/cf...

edit: these ROM "cassettes" appear in the video at around 12:40

sixthDot 4 days ago

Yeah... those are the "constants value" generators... those who initally were shipped with non-magnetic pins, those of the "prank".

  • ddalex 2 days ago

    That prank reads like it was taken out of that CIA sabotage field manual...