CERN Topoclustering on the Bendix G-15!

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/

This video would not have been possible without the help of
Dr. Allison Deiana: https://www.physics.smu.edu/adeiana/
Lloyd Hasley: Retired!
Rob Kolstad: https://rbk.delosent.com/g15doc.html

All visual material acquired from the following sources:
   / @atlasexperiment  
   / @cern  
https://cds.cern.ch/
https://indico.cern.ch/

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Intro Music adapted from:
Artist: The Runaway Five
Title: The Shinra Shuffle
https://ocremix.org/remix/OCR01847

Thanks for watching!

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