Tamiko Thiel

One of my favorites, CM-1 t-shirt: https://www.tamikothiel.com/cm/cm-tshirt.html

On the subject of beauty in computers, I'd love to hear what you guys' favorite computers are (based on looks only). I'd love to discover some new ones. Some of those that stood out to me over the years and are among my favorites: Wood-modded node 202: https://www.reddit.com/r/sffpc/comments/lq86bb/node_202_faux_wood_mod/ Fanless radiator cube: https://tp69.blog/2018/04/17/completely-silent-computer/ The connection machine: https://www.tamikothiel.com/cm/ The PET: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commodore_PET

The picture gallery and explanation of the design are amazing. Do yourself a favor and look at https://tamikothiel.com/cm/cm-hypercube.html and https://tamikothiel.com/cm/cm-sketches.html along with the pictures. I hadn't seen some of those pictures before.

Truly amazing. I remember when my university purchased a CM2 for about $5 million. Was about 30 gflops. http://www.tamikothiel.com/cm/

> As an ironic footnote, a friend who worked for Steve Jobs at NeXT told me the CM-1 was the inspiration for the form of his NeXT machine. <https://tamikothiel.com/cm/tshirt/index.html> You can see it in action here <https://www.paulrand.design/work/NeXT-Computers.html>

Hypercube, e.g. the Connection Machine: https://www.tamikothiel.com/theory/cm_txts/index.html

Yeah, but no Richard Feynman this time around. And I was just wearing this shirt today! https://www.tamikothiel.com/cm/cm-tshirt.html

Related to something similar Richard Feynman worked on - called Connection Machine: https://tamikothiel.com/theory/cm_txts/

And it was designed after the T-shirt that feynman wears on one of his most known pictures [0]. BTW: there we still have a nonfunctional CM which we equipped with LEDs to put fun games on it at the CS faculty in Karlsruhe [1] [0] https://www.tamikothiel.com/cm/cm-tshirt.html [1] https://www.teco.edu/~diener/

I mentioned this last time around [1], Tamiko Thiel worked with Feynman and Hillis at thinking machines and is responsible, amongst many other things, for how cool the CM-1 and CM-2 looked. Also, the T-shirts! [2] [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37688340 [2] https://www.tamikothiel.com/cm/cm-tshirt.html

I think the curved cabinet in the background was the storage. It was a supporting role. The CM visual/industrial design, including a little about das blinkenlights, is discussed by the designer, Tamiko Thiel, at: https://tamikothiel.com/theory/cm_txts/

In the article it's referred to as the "CM-1 tshirt design" so I plugged the first two words into duckduckgo and the first result led me to someone who is selling the tshirts: http://www.tamikothiel.com/cm/cm-tshirt.html

Another designer he couldn’t hire built the connection machine http://www.tamikothiel.com/cm/index.html > How the Connection Machine inspired Steve Jobs: My old friend Joanna Hoffman was marketing manager for the first Macintosh and the NeXT computer, and Steve Jobs' "right hand," as depicted by Kate Winslet in the film "Steve Jobs." In 1986, when the Connection Machine came out, Jobs asked her to get its designer to create his new NeXT computer as well. To which Joanna replied, "Too late, Tamiko has gone to Europe to become an artist!" But the machine made a lasting impression on him, and from that point on, Jobs' designs were not merely useful - they were visually sublime. See "CM-1/CM-2 Design Legacy" >>

Wow, I've never seen a picture of these. They are beautiful, perhaps an inspiration for the NeXT cube? edit: oh, there is a section on the website specifically about this - https://tamikothiel.com/cm/cm-design.html Cool!

http://www.tamikothiel.com/cm/index.html has more details directly from the designer.

I really want to buy the CM-1 T-Shirt, but with duty and shipping it's too much for a shirt the comments describe as being of poor t-shirt quality.... http://www.tamikothiel.com/cm/cm-tshirt.html https://shop.spreadshirt.com/mission-base-creations/cm+1+logo+flexprin…

Some info about the CM-1 and 2 here: http://www.tamikothiel.com/cm/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Connection_Machine

Quantum Computers sitting in their cryogenic chambers are such works of art, stacks of giant brass plates and hundreds of heat pipes (or coolant pipes? liquid helium I suppose) twisted and coiling throughout the structure hanging like some steampunk chandelier (why do they hang from above anyway?) EDIT: changed to a few direct links to pics: [0][1][2] The esoteric design reminds me of the Connection Machine blog posted the other day, "to communicate to people that this was the first of a new generation of computers, unlike any machine they had seen before." [3] I'm curious what they do with these prototypes once they are obsoleted in a matter of months, are the parts so expensive they tear it down to reuse them? Or will the machines be able to go on tour and stand in glass cases to intrigue the next generation of engineers? I know it had a tremendous effect on me to stand in front of a hand-wired lisp machine at the MIT museum. [0] https://img-s-msn-com.akamaized.net/tenant/amp/entityid/AANsFUz.img [1] https://img-s-msn-com.akamaized.net/tenant/amp/entityid/AANsBTo.img [2] https://static.reuters.com/resources/r/?m=02&d=20191023&t=2&am… [3] https://tamikothiel.com/theory/cm_txts/