13 Nov
1999
13 Nov
'99
5:28 a.m.
I wonder what happened to the "app-note" type designs that were floating
around about 15 years ago. It was hard to get them to stop sending them to
me when I was working at the "Rocket Ranch." They were purported to be
small and simple, intended for ganging up on a task, and not my cup of tea,
so I never bothered to save them. They must have had a serial (RS-232)
version, because I considered them for a hugely parallel test fixture for
proving that yet another Honeywell-Bull system proposed to the Pentagon
didn't work as advertised. We built a single board system which filled a 6'
rack, with 68701's on both sides to perform the test. It proved the system
didn't work, but the Pentagon bought it anyway.
<sigh>
It's nice to know that your work matters.
Dick
-----Original Message-----
From: Ram Meenakshisundaram <rmeenaks(a)olf.com>
To: Discussion re-collecting of classic computers
<classiccmp(a)u.washington.edu>
Date: Saturday, November 13, 1999 4:47 AM
Subject: RE: Need a RS232 interface transputer tram
Sure that seems fine. I also realized the T400s would be a mess as it would
I really dont have any preference to a serial chip
other than
that it should be
reliable and easy to source. I have no spare T2s
either. All
the spares I have
are the T400 (2-link) transputers.
I've never used one of those. I may have the odd spare T414 (or maybe
even a T8 of some kind) that I can use for this project, though. I
wouldn't be hard to convert the design to use other transputers, of
course.
break the pipeline on a B008. Some extrnal ram would
be nice. How about
64K of SRAM. That should be plenty for most work I would think.
I don't know who owns the copyright on the
transputer card I designed (T4
or T8 + 256K DRAM + interfaces to some custom hardware), but if it's me,
or I can get permission to hand it round, I'd be happy to release it for
non-commerical use. I will look into this sometime.
That would be nice. I dont have any freely releasable transputer card
designs. People always ask me where they can get transputer cards, with a
design spec, they can build one themselves. Thanks Tony. I really
appreciate it.
Ram