{"id":4383,"date":"2018-12-31T21:11:49","date_gmt":"2019-01-01T02:11:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/cleve\/?p=4383"},"modified":"2018-12-31T21:11:49","modified_gmt":"2019-01-01T02:11:49","slug":"vaxbarn-restores-vibrating-membrane-on-ardent-titan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/cleve\/2018\/12\/31\/vaxbarn-restores-vibrating-membrane-on-ardent-titan\/","title":{"rendered":"VAXBARN Restores Vibrating Membrane on Ardent Titan"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"content\"><h3>VAXBARN Restores Vibrating Membrane on Ardent Titan<\/h3><pre class=\"codeinput\">   dore_frame\r\n<\/pre><img decoding=\"async\" vspace=\"5\" hspace=\"5\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/cleve\/files\/vaxbarn_blog_01.png\" alt=\"\"> <p>This is a short post to point to a web site in the Netherlands, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vaxbarn.com\/\">VAXBARN<\/a>. The site proprietor, Camiel Vanderhoeven, is assembling a collection of historically interesting computers.<\/p><p>In 2013 I wrote a series of posts about <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/cleve\/2013\/12\/09\/the-ardent-titan-part-2\">the Ardent Titan<\/a>.  I worked at Ardent for most of its brief existence in the late 1980's.  The Titan was a high powered graphics workstation and the only computer to have MATLAB bundled with the manufacturer's software.<\/p><p>Camile has acquired the Titan originally provided by Ardent to Stanford Aeronautics Professor <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Antony_Jameson\">Antony Jameson<\/a> for  the development of his FLO series of computational fluid dynamics codes widely used at the time by the aircraft industry. (I last saw the machine stored in Tony's garage.)<\/p><p>Camile has described his experience getting the machine to work again after almost 30 years out of commission, <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/tMSnnt3iFz0\">restoring the Ardent Titan<\/a>. He brings up MATLAB 3.5 at time stamp 14:18 in the video.<\/p><p>Another video is about the MATLAB Vibrating L-Shaped Membrane on the Titan. In 1988, this was the first time I saw what was to become the MathWorks logo vibrating in real time.  I am having trouble getting a link from the blog to work correctly.  Copy this link and paste it into your web browser:<\/p><pre class=\"language-matlab\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=0EPrUIyD1m0&amp;feature=\r\n<\/pre><p>Or, browse for:<\/p><pre class=\"language-matlab\">Youtube <span class=\"string\">L-shaped<\/span> <span class=\"string\">Membranes<\/span> <span class=\"string\">in<\/span> <span class=\"string\">TITAN-MATLAB<\/span>\r\n<\/pre><script language=\"JavaScript\"> <!-- \r\n    function grabCode_7a3d2ee3d965440ab59beac01322e204() {\r\n        \/\/ Remember the title so we can use it in the new page\r\n        title = document.title;\r\n\r\n        \/\/ Break up these strings so that their presence\r\n        \/\/ in the Javascript doesn't mess up the search for\r\n        \/\/ the MATLAB code.\r\n        t1='7a3d2ee3d965440ab59beac01322e204 ' + '##### ' + 'SOURCE BEGIN' + ' #####';\r\n        t2='##### ' + 'SOURCE END' + ' #####' + ' 7a3d2ee3d965440ab59beac01322e204';\r\n    \r\n        b=document.getElementsByTagName('body')[0];\r\n        i1=b.innerHTML.indexOf(t1)+t1.length;\r\n        i2=b.innerHTML.indexOf(t2);\r\n \r\n        code_string = b.innerHTML.substring(i1, i2);\r\n        code_string = code_string.replace(\/REPLACE_WITH_DASH_DASH\/g,'--');\r\n\r\n        \/\/ Use \/x3C\/g instead of the less-than character to avoid errors \r\n        \/\/ in the XML parser.\r\n        \/\/ Use '\\x26#60;' instead of '<' so that the XML parser\r\n        \/\/ doesn't go ahead and substitute the less-than character. \r\n        code_string = code_string.replace(\/\\x3C\/g, '\\x26#60;');\r\n\r\n        copyright = 'Copyright 2018 The MathWorks, Inc.';\r\n\r\n        w = window.open();\r\n        d = w.document;\r\n        d.write('<pre>\\n');\r\n        d.write(code_string);\r\n\r\n        \/\/ Add copyright line at the bottom if specified.\r\n        if (copyright.length > 0) {\r\n            d.writeln('');\r\n            d.writeln('%%');\r\n            if (copyright.length > 0) {\r\n                d.writeln('% _' + copyright + '_');\r\n            }\r\n        }\r\n\r\n        d.write('<\/pre>\\n');\r\n\r\n        d.title = title + ' (MATLAB code)';\r\n        d.close();\r\n    }   \r\n     --> <\/script><p style=\"text-align: right; font-size: xx-small; font-weight:lighter;   font-style: italic; color: gray\"><br><a href=\"javascript:grabCode_7a3d2ee3d965440ab59beac01322e204()\"><span style=\"font-size: x-small;        font-style: italic;\">Get \r\n      the MATLAB code <noscript>(requires JavaScript)<\/noscript><\/span><\/a><br><br>\r\n      Published with MATLAB&reg; R2018b<br><\/p><\/div><!--\r\n7a3d2ee3d965440ab59beac01322e204 ##### SOURCE BEGIN #####\r\n%% VAXBARN Restores Vibrating Membrane on Ardent Titan\r\n\r\n   dore_frame\r\n   \r\n%%\r\n% This is a short post to point to a web site in the Netherlands,\r\n% <https:\/\/www.vaxbarn.com\/ VAXBARN>.\r\n% The site proprietor, Camiel Vanderhoeven, is assembling a collection of\r\n% historically interesting computers.\r\n\r\n%%\r\n% In 2013 I wrote a series of posts about \r\n% <https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/cleve\/2013\/12\/09\/the-ardent-titan-part-2\r\n% the Ardent Titan>.  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The site proprietor, Camiel Vanderhoeven, is assembling a... <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/cleve\/2018\/12\/31\/vaxbarn-restores-vibrating-membrane-on-ardent-titan\/\">read more >><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":78,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[13,5,23,4,25],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/cleve\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4383"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/cleve\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/cleve\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/cleve\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/78"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/cleve\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4383"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/cleve\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4383\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4385,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/cleve\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4383\/revisions\/4385"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/cleve\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4383"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/cleve\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4383"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/cleve\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4383"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}