> On 1 May 2019, at 22:42, alan--- via cctalk <cctalk@classiccmp.org> wrote: > > > It's a CM-2. The problem with most CM-2s - aside not working in 2019 - is > most were never fully populated with card cages in all 8 hyper-cubes. That > particular machine only has card cages in 2 of the hyper-cubes. The other 6 > are empty. I'm not sure a machine with max 64K processors was ever actually > sold to a real customer.
Oh. > The CM-2 in the photo has faux LED panels installed with LEDs spacing that > exactly matches the real CPU card stacks. Each of the 4096 LEDs are > individually PWM'd and addressable. The blinky pattern is generated by a > ESP32 which can also be WiFi and BT controlled. Only pulls about 100 Watts > with that pattern running. I suppose in this day and age that’s all I need to see since the machine itself would be, as William says, fantastically useless. I was definitely swooned by the marketing shots back in the day though. -- adrian/witchy Owner of Binary Dinosaurs, the UK's biggest private home computer collection? t: @binarydinosaurs f: facebook.com/binarydinosaurs w: www.binarydinosaurs.co.uk
