15 Aug
1997
15 Aug
'97
7:43 a.m.
No transputers, but I know where you can get a 1450XLD from an ex-Atari
employee, although he is only willing to sell it if he gets "the right
price", whatever that is.
Kai
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From: bluesky6(a)ix.netcom.com
Reply To: classiccmp(a)u.washington.edu
Sent: Friday, August 15, 1997 9:21 AM
To: Discussion re-collecting of classic computers
Subject: Re: Transputers (was: Re: CCC : Atari machines)
I have actually seen the Atari Transputer machine at a show in Paris.
If memory serves, one of the demos they had was the mandelbrot drawing
program with the 4 transputers each taking a part of the screen and
computing it at the same time while a stock ST had the 68K calculate
the entire screen by itself.
IMHO, Atari had a lot of great products in those days. Unfortunately,
most of them were never really marketed or even so, were marketed
poorly.
Ben