Computer Mainframe

An advanced and expensive machine that can perform a most wonderful task. When powered with electricity, filled with water, and powered with a redstone signal, it will combine two genome data reels into an empty one, creating a genome data reel of a new combined life-form.

Example: Pig + Zombie = Pig Zombie

Computer Mainframe GUI

Finite-state Machine

There are several states in which the mainframe can operate and there are a few visual indicators to accompany these states. Here is a description of each for the operator:

Mainframe Idle State

Mainframe No Water State

Mainframe Overheat State

Mainframe Working State

Fun Facts
The computer mainframe block is based on the design from a series of super computers from the Thinking Machines Corporation. In May 1985, Thinking Machines became the third company to register a .com domain name (think.com).

It became profitable in 1989, thanks to its DARPA contracts and selling code-breaking machines to the NSA. Thinking Machines filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in August 1994. The hardware portion of the company was purchased by Sun Microsystems, which later went on to create Java.

James Gosling originally developed Java at Sun Microsystems (which has since merged into Oracle Corporation) and released in 1995 as a core component of Sun Microsystems’ Java platform.

Popular Culture

 * In the 1993 film Jurassic Park, Connection Machines (non-functioning dummies) are visible in the park’s control room, scientist Dennis Nedry mentions “eight Connection Machines” and a video about dinosaur cloning mentions “Thinking Machines supercomputers”.
 * In the 1996 film Mission Impossible, Luther Stickell asks Franz Kreiger for Thinking Machine laptops to help hack into the CIA’s Langley supercomputer.
 * Tom Clancy’s novel The Bear and The Dragon says the National Security Agency could crack nearly any book or cipher with one of three custom operating systems designed for a Thinking Machines supercomputer.