VCF Southeast Photos, Now Thinking Machines

[Jan Adelsbach]

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.
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>> 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/

Also there are a couple of documents on archive.org like the CM chip 
specification:
https://archive.org/details/06Kahle001103

- Jan