On Wed, 6 Sep 2023, Christian Corti via cctalk wrote:
On Tue, 5 Sep 2023, Tom Ivar Helbekkmo wrote:
James B DiGriz via cctalk <cctalk@classiccmp.org> writes:
Oh, I've always been interested in them, just that opportunity and
means never converged when I wasn't distracted by other things, and
then they became yesterday's news and hard to find. If yours turn up,
I'm sure I wouldn't be the only one who'd want some, either.
I know what you mean. Transputer stuff does turn up from time to time,
though. I play with Perihelion's Helios on a Transputer array myself -
here's the story of how I finally got started (with some useful links to
more Transputer information): https://hamartun.priv.no/b004.html
Ok, I do have tons of transputer staff here. For example a transputer board
from Meico for SUN VME machines. And Inmos development systems etc.
But I don't see any relation of that to the subject... ;-)
It was Meiko I worked for. I don't recall an in-Sun transputer board but
we had boards for PCs, Suns and VAXes that had the transuter link-chip on
them that then allowed them to front-end a "Computing Surface" - aka big
box full of transputers and other peripherals. You'd develop the code on
the PC/Sun/VAX then use the tools to load up the transputer array and off
you went...
I've only ever seen one Meiko system in a museum since then - Jim Austins
private collection and while it might power-up, it's missing all the SCSI
drives with all the software on - which appears to have been lost to time,
sadly.
Gordon
