Latest posts tagged with #transputer on Bluesky
Hmmm. I hooked Link0 of a Transtech TTM15F-85-F module up to the host card, and it's flagging Error and failing to communicate. I can see the peek command on LinkIn but no reply on LinkOut. Very odd. #transputer #Transputers
Red cover of square document, "Technical overview: transputer architecture" by Inmos The typesetting is Helvetica bold reversed out of the red, and it is illustrated by a line drawing of a grid of squares linked by four links at the compass points (the Transputer architecture).
Green cover of square document, "User manual: occam evaluation kit" by Inmos The typesetting is Helvetica bold in deep blue.
brochure on the "occam programming system" by Inmos. Typesetting is in black Helvetica bold, light and other weights for headings and code.
Preliminary datasheet for the IMS T424 transputer. Title is Helvetica bold reversed out of a black rectangle, about one quarter of the top of the page. The typesetting is typewriter—obviously not finalised for publication. There is a block diagram possibly made in MacPaint—all labels are Geneva 10.
Inmos T9000 promotional mug. Reads "The T9000 Transputer". The text "9000" is overlaid over a large letter T, with a XOR mask. That's a nerdy way of saying where the 9000 text is, the blue "T" inverts. The text "THE" "TRANSPUTER" is above and below, printed in red.
Other side of the mug showing four chain links oriented North, South, East, West, interlocking in the centre with a black square enclosing them through the middle of each link.
View from above. Yes it has four handles. Perfect for sharing a hot toddy with three colleagues. Or just for yourself, as a treat.
My new mug processes in parallel. #Transputer #transputers
Been staring at #transputer datasheets some more. Seems like the Scott connectors Inmos specified for the Transputer TRAM boards are very much no longer available -- but Harwin do the H3192-05 which looks like a very close match. Except it'll need a plastic shroud to set the correct height. Hmm […]
The last thing I expected when looking up a piece of chip art[1] at lunchtime was to find that it's Fat Freddy's Cat, from the Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers.
I guess the Inmos engineers needed a break after finishing the chip layout.
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[Original post on digipres.club]
If you're the person who spunked £500 down and properly outbid me on the CSI / CSA Transputer Education Kit on Ebay UK a few weeks ago, I have just one question...
... can I please have a copy of the software disks, and some photos of the ISA card?
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Inspired by @glitchwolfe.studio I've dug out a few of my old video show animations from the "Virtual Visuals" days in the late 90s/early2000s.
Here's the first. It's an SGS Thompson #Transputer wafer reflecting bubbles from the surface of my aquarium, with the moonlight on.
I found my Z80 CP/M emulator (1996) I made for my transputer operating system. I had to repair one lost sector, and I compiled it for running Li-Chen Wang's Tiny-BASIC, because CP/M licensing nuances. Check the committed files. #retro #transputer #z80 github.com/nanochess/tr...
I just have completed the port of my transputer assembler to MS-DOS, using Turbo C++ 3 (I intended to use the Mark DeSmet c88 compiler but it has too many bugs). As result the full toolchain for compiling Pascal programs for #transputer now works in DOS. github.com/nanochess/tr...
I need a sheet in my shoulder saying, "Don't let me visit eBay." 😂 I got some IMSC011 chips for $5 USD each one, and an IMST805 of 30 mhz (very rare as the 25 mhz version is far more common). The IMSC011 chips worked just fine. #retro #transputer
I used the 256-color palette of the VGA card to simulate 3-3-2 bits color. A very nice improvement over my previous gray-scale display. #retro #transputer
I just have released the schematics and PCB of my transputer board, along an article describing the process. Enjoy it! #retro #transputer #ibmpc #dos nanochess.org/transputer_b...
Ok. I made a mistake. I should have put a 74LS367 instead of a 74LS368. I had to disassemble ISERVER to be sure. Notice how it extracts bit 0 and complements it. Now, the Occam compiler works. It's very hard to use! #retro #transputer
No wires are needed! All my software is working. I also tested with the Mandelbrot program from Geekdot to make sure my board is compatible with the Inmos B004 board 😀✌️ #retro #transputer
Maybe I didn't make any mistakes 😁 in the third version of my transputer ISA board #retro #transputer
I want to release my transputer PCB board, but when I adjusted the schematic to add port and speed selection, KiCad decided I wanted to do the definitive crossover between D0 and A4, bringing down the 286 🫣 I was able to scratch it and add the wire of shame 😅 #retro #transputer
I just noticed Toy Story was released 30 years ago! Wow! That's a lot of time! BTW, did you know Pixar had some transputer-based rendering boards? #retro #transputer www.fxguide.com/fxfeatured/p...
I was testing KiCad 9, one hour to draw the schematic, five hours for the PCB, fifteen minutes with PCBway, waiting one week, and five hours to build the board (time wasted because my oscilloscope failed). I made two mistakes but it works! #retro #transputer #pcbway #homebrew
Maybe it is just nostalgia, but I've written the required DOS software to run my basic transputer operating system from a real 1.44mb floppy. Edit, compile, and assemble completely inside my OS. The code is in my git. #retro #transputer
This weekend I was busy coding the input/output portion in MS-DOS for my transputer ISA board. And guess what? Now my Pascal compiler works and the Ray Tracer. It is also compatible with an Inmos B004 board. Uploaded to my git 😉 #retro #transputer
At the start of April, I bought two transputer boards for 25$ each on eBay. I've been building an ISA board to test 🤓 Today, after destroying two 74LS08, solving three disconected wires, and adding a decoupling capacitor, it finally says "nano" 🥳 #retro #homebrew #transputer
The sockets are now soldered. I decided to start with the oscillator, and I made one with a 10mhz crystal and divided with 74LS74. The capacitor between inverters was 10pf so it failed, it must be 0.1uf. I'm pretty happy to have the required 5 mhz. #retro #transputer
