1 May
2019
1 May
'19
3:18 p.m.
On 1 May 2019, at 22:42, alan--- via cctalk <cctalk
at 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.
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