6 Mar
2007
6 Mar
'07
8:10 a.m.
Andrew Back wrote:
One is a 1st generation CS with boards filled with
transputers, a
host/monitor board, RAM card and gfx card. Also have a PC ISA link
adapter and a connecting cable made from something akin to miniature
flat twinax (well the links did run at 10Mb/s)
Lucky you :) I have good memories of Kent University's Meiko - as I recall it
was Peter Welch who taught me.
The website at http://www.cs.kent.ac.uk/people/staff/phw suggests he's still
there (and hasn't updated his photo since my time there :-) so it might be
worth giving him a prod to see if they have anything on backup still.
By all accounts their Meiko was unceremoniously thrown out at end of life
though and it was rescued by some students who donated it to the Science
Museum - so I'm not that hopeful over the fate of the software and
documentation :-(
The 2nd node is a later CS/i860 (aka Concerto), which
again has
transputers but also as the name suggests i860 CPUs
nice!
Sadly the HDD had died
Have you tried a board swap from an identical good drive in case the fault's
with the logic rather than heads / spindle / surfaces? Knowing Sun it's a
fairly common drive...
I'm hoping to go and look at a CS1 in a few weeks and pick it up if it turns
out to be in reasonable-enough shape. This one has a Microvax as the host (I'm
not sure how common that is - all the installations I've heard about have been
either Sun or PC).
cheers
Jules