26 May
2011
26 May
'11
4:30 p.m.
On 27 May 2011 06:06, Tony Duell <ard at p850ug1.demon.co.uk> wrote:
[...]
When I was at Bristol Universtiy, we did quite abit
with Trasnputers. We
had a microVac with a 3rd party trasputer link card (not Inmos) in it,
the developement tools (Occam compiler, etc) were hosted on said VAX.
[VME]
I am pretty sure some commercial host itnerfaces
worked that way. I never
saw a schematic of the Q-bus card we had at Bristol, and I wasn't left
alone with it for long enough to reverse-engineer it :-). But IIRC it
contaisn a T2, some EPROMs and some glue logic (and probably the normal
Qbus interace chips, etc). ?I am pretty sure there was no C011 or C012 on
there.
If you are referring to the card that I think you are, I grabbed this
a couple of years ago when the Physics Dept was throwing out a load of
CAMAC and VME stuff. As it seemed I would never really get around to
aqcuriing any transputer hardware I passed it on to the National
Museum of Computing before I moved back to Australia.
[...]
Simon
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