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See the Data General Nova in action!

marcelvanherkmarcelvanherk wrote 6 days ago • 1 min read • Like

I just made and published a video of my Nova computer in action. I hope you enjoy it.

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marcelvanherk wrote 3 days ago point

Thanks for pointing out the typo. The chirping noise is definitively the cores. I hadn't considered the source of the frequency, though, which must be a few khz. Maybe only some of the cores vibrate and you hear when a specific line or column is addressed! I will dig out my bat ultasound detector and see if there is a lot of noise at 60 khz.

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Paul McClay wrote 4 days ago point

TIL "anochronism"

also core memory making noise - it seems like that would be a bigger part of the received lore if it was normal function. It's not obvious how that correlates w/60k pixels/sec. I wonder if it's an audible freq power converter modulated at rate of 180 projections/25 seconds.

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