Telmat P1085 (Esprit Supernode) - more bad photos of transputer kit!

Apologies again for the quality of the photos. So this machine has been kept in a damp basement for a while, and on removing a side panel noticed the PSU has become fairly rusty in places. Should I just try and rem\ove all the rust and vacuum / blast it with compressed air? And same for the backplane and cards etc... http://media.emergency-music.org/telmat/front.jpg http://media.emergency-music.org/telmat/side.jpg http://media.emergency-music.org/telmat/cage.jpg Since the photos are poor included details of some of the ICs (ones I thought may be of relevance): - Backplane takes up to 7 cards, is marked 'Version A 22/10/89' and has 4 x ceramic 80486 sized ICs marked 'NEC RSRE S01 8714K9'. I don't know what these are but suspect they may be soft configurable devices for transputer link routing. - 1 x mass store, with 4 banks of 36 x HM511000P105 http://media.emergency-music.org/telmat/store.jpg - 2 x compute boards, each with 8 mezzanine boards containing an IMST800-G20R and 8 x HM62256LP-8. http://media.emergency-music.org/telmat/cn.jpg (mezzanine) http://media.emergency-music.org/telmat/cn2.jpg - 1 x P1085 Controller, with amongst other things a Z8053006PSC, ICM7170 RTC, AM2864BDC, 16 x HM62256LP-8, Li battery etc. http://media.emergency-music.org/telmat/controller.jpg system, and so would be booted via a PC. I'm not sure whether the controller card is some kind of minimal host or just responsible for configuring link routing. The case also has provision for disk and tape drives, which may well have been for the future and never implemented in this system. Not sure whether to try and get this up and running or to part with it so someone else can have a go and focus on the Meiko. Andrew ---------------- Andrew Back a at smokebelch.org