2 Sep
2006
2 Sep
'06
12:45 p.m.
Tony Duell wrote:
Are ISA transputer boards (B004, etc) that hard to find now?
I've only stumbled across one in the last four years, and that one was missing
all the actual transputer modules from it and was just the ISA host board :-(
Which makes me wonder what would happen if you fed it
an extended instruction
that it didn't know how to deal with.
I don't know, but finding out is one
of the first things on my list of
things to do once I build some boards to plug mine into and find or make a
transputer link interface (anyone got a C012 they wouldn't mind selling?). And are they really that hard to find or
expenssive that you have to spend hundreds of dollars to get one?
I'd say so. I suppose the "supercomputer" associations tend to push the
price
up or something. Annoyingly we've had an offer of a complete Meiko CS1 along
with the associated Microvax controlling host / graphical display, and nobody
seems to be interested apart from me :(
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