[rescue] Odd duck

Tue Mar 13 12:33:49 CDT 2018

Awesome Glad to see its finding a good home.    Thats the eventual goal of
the SGI origin we have here is to get it into a museum.

On Tue, Mar 13, 2018 at 12:58 PM Patrick Giagnocavo <patrick at zill.net>
wrote:

> I think it would be pretty interesting to see what the hardware could do,
> even today, were it at the LSSM.
>
> There is plenty of C code that could be tried out on it, like a ray
> tracing program, fractal explorer, etc. I am sure.
>
> The Propeller chip is 8 simple chips each with 2KB local RAM, pretty
> similar (but limited to 8 cores total, not 4096)
> https://www.parallax.com/product/p8x32a-d40 ; still used today for
> embedded applications.
>
> Cheers Patrick
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Matt Patoray" <mspproductions at gmail.com>
> To: "The Rescue List" <rescue at sunhelp.org>
> Sent: Tuesday, March 13, 2018 9:47:18 AM GMT -07:00 US/Canada Mountain
> Subject: Re: [rescue] Odd duck
>
> Bob,
>
> Yes the LSSM would be a good home for it. If it can be made to run again,
> it will run. And people will be able to visit it and use it.
>
> It looks like it came form Kent state, so if it goes to the LSSM, it will
> be close to where it had lived previously.
>
> On Tue, Mar 13, 2018 at 11:01 AM, Bob Darlington <rdarlington at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> > It's in Los Alamos, NM, and I believe Shannon is leaning toward Dave's
> > museum.  He can come get my sgi stuff as well.    And this is from a
> > university, not the national lab.
> >
> > On Mar 12, 2018 11:14 PM, "Bob Darlington" <rdarlington at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >
> > > Hi guys,
> > >
> > > My friend sent me a letter asking if I was interested in some oddball
> > > stuff.  Have any of you guys ever worked with anything like this?  Is
> > there
> > > a place this stuff should go to live in a forever home?
> > >
> > > I was able to donate 2 of the the 3 computers to museums. I have 1
> > remaining
> > Zephyr Wavetracer Model 8 "personal supercomputers." With them, I have
> > support
> > boards, cables, and some additional hardware, software, and can reproduce
> > the
> > manuals upon request. One of the ones pictured is now at the Computer
> > History
> > Museum in Mountain View, CA
> > (http://www.computerhistory.org/collections/catalog/102741568).
> > >
> > > For images of the boards and the system you can download the zip at
> > https://www.dropbox.com/s/tdpezpozmg8n8de/ZephyrWavetracerSmall.zip?dl=0
> > >
> > > The general organization for the images is this:
> > >
> > >     Picture of external storage box with the label visible
> > >     Picture of front of board, followed by optional close-ups
> > >     Picture of rear of board, followed by optional close-ups, esp. of
> any
> > hand-wiring
> > >     There is a picture of the 1 U Windows server that I am working to
> get
> > software off of. So the answer to the software is that there is a good
> > chance
> > once I overcome the forgotten account credentials.
> > >     There are pictures of all three Zephyrs side by side (2
> available), a
> > close-up of the front, rear, and then pictures of the wooden bases for
> the
> > machines.
> > >
> > > Would you be interested in acquiring any of the offered hardware? They
> > did
> > boot and work in 2010, when they were last tested. They have one of the
> > most
> > elegant assemblers for creating multi-dimensional matrices, with the C^n
> > language. The Processing Elements (PEs) are connected to their immediate
> > four
> > neighbors with a Taurus-like wrap around on the boards.
> > >
> > >
> > > -Bob
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>
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