Hacker gets 44-year-old computer to stream YouTube videos

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A vintage computer enthusiast not only got his 1977 machine to connect to the Internet, but it also streams videos that look like they are straight out of The Matrix.

Thorbjörn Jemander managed to get a Youtube video to render at 30 frames per second on a Commodore PET 600 computer from 1977.

Commodore’s PET line of personal computers debuted in December 1977 with limited graphic capabilities.Without a “High Resolution Graphic” board, the PET’s graphics were limited to a character set hardwired in the device’s read-only memory. Programmers could change the look-up address of the character graphics to point to RAM, which they could use to generate custom graphic shapes.The cartridge Jemander connects to the PET 600’s expansion port uses a Raspberry Pi 2 to request a video from YouTube using the

 

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