[rescue] Odd duck

[Bob Darlington]

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