Hi, Unfortunately, my Meiko tapes are all in London. One of these days, I'll go and get them either shipped or travel there and get the boxes. I'll see if I can muster it up somewhere else in the meantime. Can you send some pics? Thanks, Ram -----Original Message----- From: cctalk-bounces at classiccmp.org [mailto:cctalk-bounces at classiccmp.org] On Behalf Of Andrew Back Sent: Tuesday, March 06, 2007 10:11 AM To: cctech at classiccmp.org Subject: Meiko Computing Surface software. Hello, I have two Meiko Computing Surface nodes I'm hoping to soon finally get round to restoring. Removal of dust, cobwebs and rust is one thing, but I sadly don't have any software for them, e.g. 'MeikOS', CS Tools, link adapter drivers etc. 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). The 2nd node is a later CS/i860 (aka Concerto), which again has transputers but also as the name suggests i860 CPUs, and a module which is a Sparc 1+ front end processor. Sadly the HDD had died and so I couldn't recover the SunOS 4 install along with the kernel bits for the link adapters and any other platform software. Pretty sure the NVRAM has had it too but that is the least of my worries... If anyone could help locating any Meiko software else just point me in the right direction it would be very much appreciated. Regards, Andrew ---------------- Andrew Back a at smokebelch.org

Andrew Back wrote: 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 :-( nice! 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