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Every computer on TOS fits into room sized cabinets and has rows of blinkenlights on the front panel. This is what computers looked like when the show aired.
The blinkenlights are there to report the contents of the registers in binary code. This helps a lot when you are debugging by single-stepping the entire computer one instruction at a time. Any programmer today would think this is incredibly quaint.
The show completely missed the microcomputer revolution that was brewing in the real space program at the same time they were on the air. There was a period where Apollo Guidance Computer was consuming nearly the entire national supply of integrated circuits.
And now we have redstone torches for this.
True!
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I still want one, though. They just look so cool.
by the time DS9 was aired, there were very informative blinkenlights on modems, and the Be (or was it Bee?) had a set of averaged ones measuring things like CPU and memory utilization.
Up to this day computers still come with one for disk IO. And it's still useful.
only if you have one disk... then the light stops being useful, because you don't know which disk is I/O'ing, and needed to debig further...
I suppose the modern equivalent would be looking at machine code with a hex editor.
Ooh. That's an interesting thought!
Maybe with an external pixel display.
Like using a keyboard :D