10 Nov
2018
10 Nov
'18
9:48 a.m.
Congrats on that amazing find.
On Sat, Nov 10, 2018 at 5:24 PM Camiel Vanderhoeven via cctech <
cctech at classiccmp.org> wrote:
Hello everyone,
A week ago, I took possession of a second Ardent Titan graphics
supercomputer, and unlike the other Titan, this one is almost complete.
There is one tiny bit missing, and that is a mouse pad. The mouse used with
this systems is a Mouse Systems M4 variant (M4Q), and it does not appear to
be a normal serial mouse. So, if anyone has one of those reflective
mousepads with a grid of fine blue and grey lines that they don?t need, I?d
be very happy to have it.
I have tried to print my own mousepad, but the mouse only works in the y
direction on it.
there were 2 versions of that mousepad, and the symptom of using the wrong
one was that the mouse would only move in one direction.
There was another version of the print-it-yourself mouse pad that's
essentially just white noise, have you tried that?
For those who want to know, the Titan is outfitted as follows:
2 x Titan P3 vector processors (using a MIPS R3000 for scalar operations)
2 x 64 MB main memory
Extended G2 Graphics
3 Maxtor 760 MB disks
QIC-120 tapedrive
19? trinitron monitor with stereo bezel and 3d glasses
Keyboard, mouse, knob box
Titan OS 4.2 installed (plus version 3.0, 4.1, and 4.2 installation tapes)
Dore, AVS, and PHIGS+ graphics environments
Vectorizing FORTRAN compiler with LINPACK, EISPACK, and FFT libraries
Matlab-Pro 3.5 (the Titan was the only computer ever that had Matlab as
part of its bundled programs)
Biodesign Biograf 3.0 molecular modeling application
All bits and pieces, and all software appears to work.
Camiel