This room is fullfilled mit special electronische
equippment. Fingergrabbing and pressing the cnoeppkes from the
computers is allowed for die experts only! So all the
"lefthanders" stay away and do not disturben the brainstorming
von here working intelligencies. Otherwise you will be out thrown
and kicked anderswhere! Also: please keep still and only watchen
astaunished the blinkenlights.
See also geef.
Old-time hackers sometimes get nostalgic for blinkenlights
because they were so much more fun to look at than a blank panel.
Sadly, very few computers still have them (the three LEDs on a PC
keyboard certainly don't count). The obvious reasons (cost of
wiring, cost of front-panel cutouts, almost nobody needs or wants
to interpret machine-register states on the fly anymore) are only
part of the story. Another part of it is that radio-frequency
leakage from the lamp wiring was beginning to be a problem as far
back as transistor machines. But the most fundamental fact is
that there are very few signals slow enough to blink an LED these
days! With slow CPUs, you could watch the bus register or
instruction counter tick, but at 33/66/150MHz it's all a
blur.
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