A few weeks ago while putting things away for winter; an 'autumn cleaning' if you will, I found my old project computer notebook from the late 1980's. In it were notes and plans and photo-copies of more than enough information to build my own Z8000 computer. Back then, my personal projects were based more on 'coolness' than having a purpose. Ahhhh the good old days.
This morning I was poking around on the internet and what do I find??? A military paper on 256 Z80 autonomous computers clustered into a single highly parallel computer called ZMOB.
ZMOB had more of a conceptual point of origin rather than a purpose: "The ZMOB idea sprang originally from needs of the Computer Vision Lab at Maryland." Ahhh... To build something for the simple sake of building it.
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