Guy builds enormous computer, uses it to play Tetris

If you need a computer, you could go to a store and buy one from anywhere between $500 and $3,000. Or you could spend around $53,000 in parts and invest a couple of years into building a gigantic, 1,100 pound, monster-computer that can only perform relatively simple tasks. 

Your call, totally.

A fellow named James Newman from Cambridge, UK, started building the "Megaprocessor," in 2012, the BBC reported Wednesday. The process is documented on Newman's website; in a nutshell, the idea was not to build any sort of powerful supercomputer, but to fully grasp how a computer works by building it with normal-sized transistors, instead of the extremely tiny ones seen in today's modern microprocessors. Read more...