[rescue] 360 from Nuremberg

[Mike Ross]

Correct, the interface board itself was made in-house by TMC - well,
probably contracted out to a fab shop. Close examination of the board may
be revealing there, but probably unhelpful at this point in time.

Oh and Dave? Check you Facebook messages? I'll be in western PA around June
20-21st, and need to know opening times to schedule a visit to LSSM - and
pick up that 3/60!

Mike

On Thu, Jun 6, 2019 at 10:24 AM Dave McGuire <mcguire at neurotica.com> wrote:

>   The 9U-to-6U adapter was made by Dawn, but I don't think the CM
> interface board was.
>
>                 -Dave
>
> On 6/5/19 6:18 PM, Richard wrote:
> > Also note that the board was made by DAWN Technologies who are still
> about....https://www.dawnvme.com/ maybe they have something in the
> archive....
> >
> > On Thu, 6 Jun 2019, at 8:13 AM, Richard wrote:
> >> good description of the board over at CHM...
> >>
> >> https://www.computerhistory.org/collections/catalog/102730344
> >>
> >> that's 2 know boards :-) Things are on the up....maybe you could ask if
> >> you could borrow it for Proof of Concept and reverse engineering....
> >>
> >> On Thu, 6 Jun 2019, at 7:43 AM, Mike Ross wrote:
> >>> On Thu, Jun 6, 2019 at 9:31 AM Phil Stracchino <phils at caerllewys.net>
> wrote:
> >>>
> >>>> On 6/5/19 5:19 PM, Mike Ross wrote:
> >>>>> Well I need two things, one rather rare, one almost extinct:
> >>>>>
> >>>>> - A Sun machine to use for a front-end for the Connection Machines, a
> >>>>> SPARCserver-630 would be ideal since I know one has been used for
> this
> >>>> job
> >>>>> elsewhere.
> >>>>> - The special VME board, made by TMC, that allows the above machine
> to
> >>>> act
> >>>>> as a front-end!
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>> I imagine that VME board is going to be the really tough one.
> >>>>
> >>>
> >>> 'Really tough' barely begins to describe it. There is one - ONE -
> known to
> >>> exist on this planet, and it's in the SPARCserver-630 that is part of a
> >>> complete, 'should be working' CM-200A system at the Musee Bolo in
> >>> Switzerland.
> >>>
> >>> It's possible the board from that machine may be physically or
> functionally
> >>> reverse-engineered, or cloned - I have some heavyweight assistance in
> this
> >>> project! But much better if I could scare up another board of course.
> Which
> >>> is unlikely but not impossible; the front-end Sun may have been
> retained
> >>> and repurposed by whatever institution owned the CM after the CM
> itself was
> >>> scrapped or otherwise taken away, and then sold or ended up in the
> hands of
> >>> a hacker, collector, or a Sun dealer,
> >>>
> >>> This is the board in question:
> >>>
> >>> https://twitter.com/eruptionchaser/status/980231562506641411
> >>>
> >>> Critically, the Swiss museum also have all CM-2 software on the disks
> from
> >>> the SPARCserver-630 - and that's the the only copy of the software
> known to
> >>> exist! Without it, it's a boat anchor. They're in the process of
> imaging
> >>> all those disks.
> >>>
> >>> Mike
> >>>
> >>> http://www.corestore.org
> >>> 'No greater love hath a man than he lay down his life for his brother.
> >>> Not for millions, not for glory, not for fame.
> >>> For one person, in the dark, where no one will ever know or see.'
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>
> --
> Dave McGuire, AK4HZ
> New Kensington, PA
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Not for millions, not for glory, not for fame.
For one person, in the dark, where no one will ever know or see.'