[rescue] Odd duck

Matt Patoray mspproductions at gmail.com
Tue Mar 13 07:32:01 CDT 2018


Yes where is the hardware, East Coast, West Coast, Midwest or South? I know
of a museum collection that a machine like that would fit perfectly into.

On Tue, Mar 13, 2018 at 1:43 AM, PhreakShow Telephone Company <
phreakshowtelco at gmail.com> wrote:

> Those look epic
>
> Where are they located?
>
>
> On Tue, Mar 13, 2018 at 1:14 AM 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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Matt Patoray
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