[rescue] Wanted: VME Sparc, hopefully CM interface card!

[Peter Stokes]

Hi Mike

Do you have any part numbers on that board that I can search for on the broker
site? The photo does not give any clear ones other than I suspect one for the
VME frame which may just be a Sun generic part?

Peter

Peter

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> On 26 Sep 2018, at 01:56, Mike Ross <tmfdmike at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I'm engaged in a project to restore two Connection Machine CM-2
> supercomputers to operational condition. They are, essentially,
> glorified coprocessors which do nothing without a front-end system to
> bring them up and operate them. There are a couple of options for
> this, but the best option by far is a Sun.
>
> The first thing I need is the special VME Connection Machine interface
> card. Can I ask anyone and everyone on this list, and everyone they
> may know who isn't on this list, to see if they have one - perhaps in
> an old server lurking in the corner, or gathering dust on the shelves
> of a collector or indeed a dealer? It could be used directly in a VME
> Sparc machine, or, I've heard from a couple of sites, it was sometimes
> used in a VME expansion chassis attached to an SBUS Sparc machine.
> There are photos of the card in the following tweet:
>
> https://twitter.com/eruptionchaser/status/980231562506641411
>
> This is pretty critical as there's only _one_ such card known to still
> exist in the world - the one in the above pics! I'm hoping to unearth
> another and this list is one of my best hopes. If all else fails, I
> will explore cloning or reverse-engineering the functionality of the
> card.
>
> The second thing I'll be looking for is a VME Sparc machine, or
> possibly an external VME box with VME-SBUS interface, to put it in. A
> 4/330 would be ideal; that's the machine the above-pictured card
> normally resides in. Does anyone have one they would be willing to
> part with?
>
> Thanks!
>
> Mike
>
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