Hi.
In a recent dumpster diving session I rescued three "IMS B012" boards.
These are "VMEbus Master Motherboards" with 16 slots for TRAMs
(TRAnsputer Modules). The three B012 are equiped with a total of 29
TRAMs. Each TRAM consists of one T800 Transputer chip and 1 MB of DRAM.
In addition there is a single B420 Vector Processing TRAM.
So, what to do with this stuff?
There is a lot of documentation out there on the net. This covers
topics like theory of operation, programming languages, libraries, ...
but no "how to get started with real hardware" guide.
I have a VME chassis to put them in. Currently this chassis houses a
MVME68k machine running NetBSD. But as I understand the documentation
on the B012 it uses the VME form factor, but has no real VMEbus
interface. So my hope to use the MVME68k (or one of my Sun3 / Sun4
VME machines) as a host is lost. It would have been cool to add the
transputers as a co-processor to my Sun 4/110 or 4/610...
If I can't get any use out of the Transputers I would like to trade
them for some more ordinary QBus stuff for my PDP-11. I need a M8061
RLV12 RL01/RL02 disk controller, QBus memory (at least 1 MB) and
perhaps a M7559 TQK70 TK70 controller.
Alternatively a MVME160x PPC VME CPU board would be nice.
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