Show threadKIT-Fakultät für InformatikMar 12
Die Verladung der zwei Data Vaults für den Transport zum Zentrum für Kunst und Medien Karlsruhe (ZKM) war noch realtiv einfach.
#ConnectionMachine #ZKMKarlsruhe
Show threadThomas GriesbaumMar 11
@janmontag No worries! We received help from @icm and @davefischer and the machine was moved to ZKM for an exhibition and a conference where we will hear firsthand about the CM from Thinking Machines engineers and designer Tamiko Thiel. Also online on March 27/28: https://zkm.de/en/2026/03/envisioning-ai-legacy-and-impact-of-the-connection-machine
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Show threadThomas GriesbaumMar 6
There are more pictures of this Connection Machine in a short thread (in German language): https://social.kit.edu/@KITInformatik/116104528905377366
To be continued.
#ConnectionMachine #RetroComputing
KIT-Fakultät für InformatikMar 6

RE: https://mstdn.io/@tencate/116181774700764033

This half-joking request attracted considerable attention. Good to know that there is so much interest in #RetroComputing. 😉
The technicians of ZKM Karlsruhe found a way to disassemble the Connection Machine enough for a safe transport. Looking forward to meeting all those interested people at the conference and exhibition. https://zkm.de/en/2026/03/envisioning-ai-legacy-and-impact-of-the-connection-machine
#ConnectionMachine

Thomas GriesbaumMar 6
Is there anybody out there who knows/remembers how to disassemble a Connection Machine 2?
Mastodon, do your thing! 😉
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Connection_Machine
#RetroComputing #ConnectionMachine
Show threadKIT-Fakultät für InformatikMar 3

Im Keller haben wir drei DataVaults, thekengroße Schränke für die Festplatten der Connection Machine. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DataVault Jede wiegt geschätzt 300kg und bot Platz für bis zu 10 GB. Heute gingen zwei auf eine Reise.

#ConnectionMachine #DataVault #KITInformatik #ZKMKarlsruhe #ZKM

KIT-Fakultät für InformatikFeb 20

Eine Connection Machine – ein ehemaliger Supercomputer – fristet in unserem Informatik-Hauptgebäude ein Dornröschen-Dasein. Zwar kann sie nicht mehr wachgeküsst werden, aber sie wird bald einem größeren Publikum präsentiert:

https://zkm.de/de/2026/03/connection-machine-cm-2

#KITInformatik #ConnectionMachine #ZKMKarlsruhe #ZKM #Karlsruhe

Wolfgang StiefJun 3, 2025
Some of you probably remember WAIS. An Internet search engine from the Gopher era (more specific: a search protocol). TIL: Thinking Machines (those with the massive red blinkenlights servers) were the main driver and developer of WAIS: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wide_area_information_server #vintagecomputing #techhistory #wais #thinkingmachines #connectionmachine
Wide area information server - Wikipedia

filidMar 15, 2025
Two of my 90s dream machines...
#Cray Y-MP EL and #ThinkingMachines #ConnectionMachine 2
🔏 Matthias WiesmannFeb 5, 2025

Old CM Fortran Code

https://wiesmann.codiferes.net/wordpress/archives/40587

#90s #ConnectionMachine #Fortran #Retrocomputing

Old CM Fortran Code

I realised that I still had some old CM Fortran exercice on my hard-drive. If the file-system dates are to be believed, the file was last touched on July the 10th 1996. CM Fortran was a special dia…

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