[rescue] San Antonio, TX area rescue

[Lionel Peterson]

--- dave at cca.org wrote:

> At least with the CM-5s, they were sent back as they were
> decomissioned, then stripped. I saw the warehouse where the remains
> were kept, and there were about thirty chassis, and not a single
> CPU board in the place.

Were teh CM-5s SPARC-based? I just finished a book (Out of Their
Minds), and the interview with the founder mentioned that the Thinking
Machines were based on commodity processors (as opposed to custom
CPUs), and the last one (CM-5) was quoted as SPARC-based.

Just curious...

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Lionel

"Nothing would please me more than being able to hire ten
programmers and deluge the hobby market with good software"
Bill Gates, in "An OpenLetter to Hobbyists" dated February 3, 1976
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