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
