[wanderingjew]

There is no documentation of what the LEDs were _actually_ doing. There are descriptions, like 'Random and Pleasing is an LFSR', but no actual information that maps to actual pixel coordinates spaced in time. Nearly zero code.

I'm saying this because I need this information, and the fastest way to get information is to state that it's impossible or doesn't exist.

[tecleandor]

Seems like CM-1 and CM-2 show CPU activity, so each light blinked when a CPU did something. Those were the ones that were designed by Tamiko Thiel.

Then, CM-5 did have the option of having "artistic" or "random patterns" on it, apparently designed or co-designed by Maya Lin. IIRC, the CM-5 is the one appearing in Jurassic Park.

I don't know if is there any firmware code or hardware design available to check how that function worked. Maybe the people from the Computer History Museum knows something. They have the first CM-1 and have at least one CM-5.

Check their library to see if maybe some of the technical docs say something:

https://www.computerhistory.org/collections/catalog/search-c...

[mietek]

I would also like to obtain this information that clearly doesn't exist. Please reply to my comment to prove me wrong.