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I was chatting about this with a friend recently. I spent most the last 15 years thinking it was real.

Had you written your own Mandelbrot set renderer or not when you first came across the story?

I can't remember. It was within a few years of me writing such a renderer on my graphics calculator, but I'm not sure which came first.

It reminds me of "An ancient rope-and-pulley computer is unearthed in the jungle of Apraphul," Computer Recreations, Scientific American