By far the most important feature of ZMOB was that each board had four differently colored software blinkable LEDs, all arrayed behind the smoked plexiglass cover of the rack they were all plugged into. It looked really cool and was great for hypnotizing and mesmerizing people, which was how we got a big NFS grant (which we spent on Vaxen and Suns and Xerox workstations).
Here's a photo of some UMD people in front of ZMOB in the Department of Research Simulation, with some white Xerox file servers and black Sun server in the background:
By far the most important feature of ZMOB was that each board had four differently colored software blinkable LEDs, all arrayed behind the smoked plexiglass cover of the rack they were all plugged into. It looked really cool and was great for hypnotizing and mesmerizing people, which was how we got a big NFS grant (which we spent on Vaxen and Suns and Xerox workstations).
https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=bane
Here's a photo of some UMD people in front of ZMOB in the Department of Research Simulation, with some white Xerox file servers and black Sun server in the background:
https://i.imgur.com/zLjYTS3.jpg