Thanks! Had a good bit of fun reading that. I’m not going to try building an FPGA version though. Not yet.
> On 3 May 2019, at 22:26, Jan Adelsbach via cctalk <cctalk@classiccmp.org> > wrote: > > On 5/3/19 8:02 PM, Sytse van Slooten via cctalk wrote: >>>> It's a CM-2. The problem with most CM-2s - aside not working in 2019 - is >>>> most were never fully populated with card cages in all 8 hyper-cubes. >>>> That particular machine only has card cages in 2 of the hyper-cubes. The >>>> other 6 are empty. I'm not sure a machine with max 64K processors was >>>> ever actually sold to a real customer. >>> Very cool to see some of these being preserved. >>> >> Is there any documentation still around? I did a quick check on bitsavers, >> but couldn’t find any… was I looking in the wrong place? > > Here is some documentation: > http://people.csail.mit.edu/bradley/cm5docs/ > > Also there are a couple of documents on archive.org like the CM chip > specification: > https://archive.org/details/06Kahle001103 > > - Jan > > >
