On Wed, 6 Sep 2023, Christian Corti via cctalk wrote:
On Tue, 5 Sep 2023, Tom Ivar Helbekkmo wrote:
James B DiGriz via cctalk writes:
Oh, I've always been interested in them, just that opportunity and
means never converged when I wasn't distracted by other things, and
then they became
On Tue, 5 Sep 2023, Tom Ivar Helbekkmo wrote:
James B DiGriz via cctalk writes:
Oh, I've always been interested in them, just that opportunity and
means never converged when I wasn't distracted by other things, and
then they became yesterday's news and hard to find. If yours turn up,
I'm sure
on were for masochists.
Martin
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From: David Arnold via cctalk [mailto:cctalk@classiccmp.org]
Sent: 05 September 2023 06:22
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Cc: David Arnold
Subject: [cctalk] Re: TI 960
> On 5 Sep 2023, at 06:01, Bill Gunshannon
James B DiGriz via cctalk writes:
> Oh, I've always been interested in them, just that opportunity and
> means never converged when I wasn't distracted by other things, and
> then they became yesterday's news and hard to find. If yours turn up,
> I'm sure I wouldn't be the only one who'd want
> On 5 Sep 2023, at 06:01, Bill Gunshannon via cctalk
> wrote:
…
> Weren't the TI 900 series the things called Transputers?
Closest thing to a Transputer from TI I can think of were the C-series DSP
chips: eg TMS 320C40, although they used 6x byte-wide parallel ports not the 4x
bit-wide
On Mon, 4 Sep 2023 18:03:26 -0400
Bill Gunshannon via cctalk wrote:
> On 9/4/2023 4:23 PM, James B DiGriz via cctalk wrote:
> > I can see some similarity of the 900 series CRU I/O to the Inmos
> > Transputer serial links, but I've never heard of them referred to as
> > Transputers. The 960 was
On 9/4/2023 4:23 PM, James B DiGriz via cctalk wrote:
I can see some similarity of the 900 series CRU I/O to the Inmos
Transputer serial links, but I've never heard of them referred to as
Transputers. The 960 was called a "bit pusher", though.
Looked similar to me, too. I was just curious
On Sep 4, 2023, at 1:01 PM, Bill Gunshannon via cctalk
wrote:
>
> Weren't the TI 900 series the things called Transputers?
No. Completely unrelated.
— Chris
I can see some similarity of the 900 series CRU I/O to the Inmos
Transputer serial links, but I've never heard of them referred to as
Transputers. The 960 was called a "bit pusher", though.
jbdigriz
On Mon, 4 Sep 2023 16:01:10 -0400
Bill Gunshannon via cctalk wrote:
> On 9/4/2023 11:27 AM,
On Mon, 4 Sep 2023, Bill Gunshannon via cctalk wrote:
Weren't the TI 900 series the things called Transputers?
I don't think so...
You may be thinking of the Inmos T9000 Transputer - successor to the T800
and T4xx (16-bit) series Transputer...
Gordon
(Worked for one of the spin-off
On 9/4/2023 11:27 AM, James B DiGriz via cctalk wrote:
I'm interested, the ATS-960 automated test system in particular. I
think that's what was with the Applicon I mentioned.
jbdigriz
On Mon, 4 Sep 2023 14:22:53 +0200 (CEST)
Christian Corti via cctalk wrote:
I won't give up my hopes, but
I'm interested, the ATS-960 automated test system in particular. I
think that's what was with the Applicon I mentioned.
jbdigriz
On Mon, 4 Sep 2023 14:22:53 +0200 (CEST)
Christian Corti via cctalk wrote:
> I won't give up my hopes, but it seems that this system is
> practically extinct and
I won't give up my hopes, but it seems that this system is practically
extinct and that noone is really interested in it, although it was the
start for the later 980/990 and 9900 series.
Christian
On Sun, 27 Aug 2023, Mark Linimon wrote:
The 960B is the only computer I ever walked away from and said "I can't
do this". This was mostly, but not entirely, due to the Silent 700 and
its cassette tapes.
It took 20 minutes to load the loader, and, then, if I got that right,
20 minutes to
> On 08/27/2023 3:30 PM CDT Sellam Abraham via cctalk
> wrote:
> found them a joy to work with. But then, I went into it with a positive
> attitude because, of
> course, it was my first vintage computer love.
By that time I was well-experienced with my high school machine (a Bendix G-15,
On Sat, 26 Aug 2023 14:27:05 +0200 (CEST)
Christian Corti via cctalk wrote:
> I guess not many have survived but I want to ask if someone/some
> place has software (papertapes, ...) for the Texas Instruments 960
> minicomputers. We have a 960B but at the moment, it is pretty much
> useless. I
On Sat, Aug 26, 2023 at 10:02 PM Mark Linimon via cctalk <
cctalk@classiccmp.org> wrote:
> > I guess not many have survived but I want to ask if someone/some place
> has
> > software (papertapes, ...) for the Texas Instruments 960 minicomputers.
>
> If any survive, please be sure to keep me at
> I guess not many have survived but I want to ask if someone/some place has
> software (papertapes, ...) for the Texas Instruments 960 minicomputers.
If any survive, please be sure to keep me at least ten feet away from them :-)
The 960B is the only computer I ever walked away from and said "I
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