VCF Southeast Photos, Now Thinking Machines

[Sytse van Slooten]

Thanks! Had a good bit of fun reading that.

I’m not going to try building an FPGA version though. Not yet.

> On 3 May 2019, at 22:26, Jan Adelsbach via cctalk <cctalk at classiccmp.org> wrote:
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> On 5/3/19 8:02 PM, Sytse van Slooten via cctalk wrote:
>>>> It's a CM-2.  The problem with most CM-2s - aside not working in 2019 - is most were never fully populated with card cages in all 8 hyper-cubes.  That particular machine only has card cages in 2 of the hyper-cubes.  The other 6 are empty.  I'm not sure a machine with max 64K processors was ever actually sold to a real customer.
>>> Very cool to see some of these being preserved.
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>> Is there any documentation still around? I did a quick check on bitsavers, but couldn’t find any… was I looking in the wrong place?
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> Here is some documentation:
> http://people.csail.mit.edu/bradley/cm5docs/
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> Also there are a couple of documents on archive.org like the CM chip specification:
> https://archive.org/details/06Kahle001103
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> - Jan
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