24 May
2011
24 May
'11
1:25 p.m.
On Mon, 23 May 2011 21:25:26 +0100
James Wilson <james at machineroom.info> wrote:
Hi Jochen, that's a really nice haul :)
Yes.
I know what Transputers are and that they are very, _very_,
_*very*_ rare. Really rare, not in the ePay sense "rare". The bigger
was my surprise to find this stuff in a dumpster.
I guess you've already found Rams page at
http://www.classiccmp.org/transputer/.
... and a few other pages as well.
That should have all the data sheets you need.
The problem is: Datasheets don't tell me _what_ I can do with this
stuff and how to do it. Datasheets cover a lot of small details. I am
missing the "big picture" that gives me an overview.
I did sell some of my TRAMs a while back on ePay and
they sold well -
I am no friend of ePay. Ideally I would like to trade this stuff
for
something I can make a use out of. If I sell it, I would like to
prefere people who actually use this stuff. I can't make this selection
on ePay.
there's a fairly strong group of collectors out
there so you could
always raise some funds for PDP kit if you have no interest in them
yourself.
I am not interrested in squeezeing as much EUR out of this stuff as I
can. I got it for free. If I know it is going to someone who actually
uses this stuff I may sell it for a more symbolic price.
Ahh, other hardware of interrest would be a SGI Fuel or a VPro grafics
and R14k CPU for my Octane. Or an Onyx 3500. ;-)
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