Chris Osborn wrote: >[...] I thought it would be fun to do a challenge where people don't just > post a picture of their computer, but they display the picture of their > computer *on* their computer and post that!
Not quite within these rules, but here are two cases of old computers showing drawings of themselves back when they were new: Alan Kay's PhD thesis was about the FLEX Machine he developed with Ed Cheadle. These "screen captures" include a drawing of the the machine itself from around 1968 or 1969: http://gagne.homedns.org/~tgagne/wp-content/uploads/6.jpg Here is my own Merlin 2, a 68000 based Smalltalk computer, with a drawing of itself in 1987: http://smalltalk.org.br/fotos/inova11.jpg Drawing with a keyboard was awkward enough that I didn't bother making the chip layout very accurate, not the drawn keyboard either. The colors are wrong because I was playing the the color pallet after the drawing was finished (http://smalltalk.org.br/fotos/inova12.jpg shows a different setting) and I don't have a picture of the setting where the boards are green and the keyboard white, unfortunately. The drawing also shows the original Ethernet based configuration instead of the one with the adapted PC bus on which the drawing is being shown. -- Jecel
