Man spends £40k making gigantic "Megaprocessor", plays Tetris on it

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Electronics engineer James Newman spent £40k building a gigantic computer capable of such advanced technology as playing Tetris.
The half-tonne (roughly 500kg) beast is 33ft (10m) wide and 6ft (2m) high and it's equipped with 40k transistors and 10k LED lights. It also burns 500 watts of electricity as it dwells in Newman's Cambridge home.
Newman admits that this "Megaprocessor" isn't actually very powerful at all, but it does look cool. "The machine on your desk may be a million times better than what I have built - but mine is much prettier," he told the BBC.
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