[rescue] CM-2

[Arno Kletzander]

On Thu, 6 Jun 2019 15:09:41 +1200, Mike Ross <tmfdmike at gmail.com> wrote:
> I know of one extant CM-5, an ex-NSA machine in the National Cryptologic
> Museum. I don't think it's operational, but they've rigged the lights up to
> blink nicely:
>
>
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/01/Frostburg_%28CM-5%29_-_Na
tional_Cryptologic_Museum_-_DSC07914.JPG
>
> I've spent the last hour or so chatting to a mate of mine, an ex-TCM
> customer engineer, and between us we reckon we know of seven surviving
> CM-2s, and there are probably a couple more out there that nobody knows
> about, in the hands of reclusive collectors. Far fewer CM-5s, or bits of
> them, have survived, probably because most of them were government-owned,
> and scrapped at the end of their usefulness - which is quite short in the
> cutting-edge world of HPC.
>
> Mike

Plus this one here in the collection/museum at Erlangen University computing
center (where I held a student job):
http://www.katalog.iser.fau.de/index.php?ort_id=322&inventarnummer=I0073

I think they had taken out most of the cards and stored them in cardboard
boxes for the transport and just put away the panels at some time to set up as
a blinking exhibit too (as the whole logic needed to do that is contained
within them) but all the stuff should still be there. Been nearly ten years
however by now so who knows?!

So long,

Arno // DO4NAK