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12-minute Mandelbrot: fractals on a 50 year old IBM 1401 mainframe

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Absolutely marvelous. Do you and your genius brother still write code?

Thanks for posting this fractallyte! We're separated by an ocean, so I'm glad I can see this digitised. To answer you dang (first, I don't consider myself that), I work as a consultant currently writing C#/.NET code for a large corporation. But hopefully one of my side projects (using various other technology stacks) will pan out one day, and I'll be able to escape, like many of us here dream about (and many have alr…

I hope you do and also that you continue to participate on Hacker News. Between kens outdoing himself with the wonderful OP, and all the other historical contributions here, this has my vote for the best HN thread in quite a while.

Re: 12-minute Mandelbrot: fractals on a 50 year old IBM 1401 mainframe

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Pix or it didn't happen. Sorry, what I mean to say is: if you happen to have those printouts somewhere convenient, I would love to see what a 1980s assembly language generated, dot matrix printed Mandelbrot set looks like.

See my post above! ;-)

That's wonderful. Those look a lot better than I imagined from how you described it. It must have been exciting to pull that out of the printer.
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