17 Jan
2003
17 Jan
'03
4:17 a.m.
On Tue, 14 Jan 2003, Patrick Finnegan wrote:
I've just run over probably 100-200lbs (45-90kg)
of Motorola VME cards...
from 68010 processor cards, to memory, and I/O cards. Now, there's not
chance I would want to hold on to these, so I'm wondering if anyone else
is interested in some of the cards. I can't guarantee anything now, just
tell me if you're interested or not. I'll try to get some cards to
whoever is interested.
I haven't looked at the cards much yet, so I don't exactly know what's
there for I/O and memory cards. There might also be a power supply or two
and maybe an intact backplane bus card (the few I saw were snapped in
half).
I know it's bad for to respond to my own message, but I found out some
more info on the cards... Aparently, they were from a Purdue home-brew
parallel processing machine called 'PASM' - for Purdue Advanced(?)
SIMD/MIMD (or Purdue Adaptor for Machine if you prefer). The 'network
input/output stage' cards seem to be buffered bus I/O cards (have a bunch
of 74LS541's and 74LS244's + address decode logic).
There's a journal article describing the machine that I'm going to pick up
a copy of: "The Design and Prototyping of the PASM Reconfigurable Parallel
Processing System" in 'Parallel Computing: Paradigms and Applications'.
If you want more information availble online, try searching
http://www.google.com/purdue for 'PASM'.
Pat
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