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  • Looking for INMOS B017 MCA card driver.

    From Andrew Back@21:1/5 to All on Sun Jan 29 11:27:43 2023
    The INMOS B017 MCA card has 4x sockets for "TRAM" transputer modules (4x single width or 2x double). INMOS designated the driver package "S217" and it looks as though it possibly only supported DOS. Bit of a long shot, but thought I'd ask here in case
    anyone should have ever come across this or may even have a copy.

    Cheers,

    Andrew

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  • From Louis Ohland@21:1/5 to Andrew Back on Sun Jan 29 13:31:51 2023
    Long forgotten connections arcing under the strain of increased current.

    What sites did you try, Transputer-wise?

    Andrew Back wrote:
    The INMOS B017 MCA card has 4x sockets for "TRAM" transputer modules (4x single width or 2x double). INMOS designated the driver package "S217" and it looks as though it possibly only supported DOS. Bit of a long shot, but thought I'd ask here in case
    anyone should have ever come across this or may even have a copy.

    Cheers,

    Andrew


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  • From Louis Ohland@21:1/5 to Andrew Back on Sun Jan 29 15:16:11 2023
    Prove me wrong. Waste of time.

    Andrew Back wrote:
    The INMOS B017 MCA card has 4x sockets for "TRAM" transputer modules (4x single width or 2x double). INMOS designated the driver package "S217" and it looks as though it possibly only supported DOS. Bit of a long shot, but thought I'd ask here in case
    anyone should have ever come across this or may even have a copy.

    Cheers,

    Andrew


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  • From Andrew Back@21:1/5 to Louis Ohland on Mon Jan 30 02:40:04 2023
    On Sunday, 29 January 2023 at 21:16:14 UTC, Louis Ohland wrote:
    Prove me wrong. Waste of time.

    It certainly exists. Here is a photo of one of the two boards that I own:

    https://res.cloudinary.com/rs-designspark-live/image/upload/c_limit,w_1000/f_auto/v1/article/phpXfy3qd_8c18661cfe0fd25d0fe9c8c51708c2965f338ecc

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  • From Louis Ohland@21:1/5 to Andrew Back on Mon Jan 30 07:03:43 2023
    For all we know that's Photoshop. I have better vision looking through a
    pair of beer goggles.

    Can you partake in the creative process and sendt me some feelthy-feely pictures of your B017? All the Tool has right now on it is the extract
    from the INMOS publication, no images. Nothing on the actual card.

    Odd. Copyright for -BOTH- INMOS -AND- IBM. Not unknown, the Actionmedia
    has Intel and IBM copyrights.

    I can't unblur the numbers on the lower edge by the copyrights. Suggests
    an IBM P/N, but I can't make out the number of characters. Ex. 91F9768,
    two digits, letter, then four digits.

    Big Xilinx is possumbly an all-in-one gate array that serves as the MCA interface [and much more].

    5.0000 MHz?

    The DB37 pinout is in INMOS pubs [saw it last night].

    The earliest TRAMs communicated at 20Mbit/s, much faster than the period ethernet's 10Mb/s.


    Andrew Back wrote:
    On Sunday, 29 January 2023 at 21:16:14 UTC, Louis Ohland wrote:
    Prove me wrong. Waste of time.

    It certainly exists. Here is a photo of one of the two boards that I own:

    https://res.cloudinary.com/rs-designspark-live/image/upload/c_limit,w_1000/f_auto/v1/article/phpXfy3qd_8c18661cfe0fd25d0fe9c8c51708c2965f338ecc


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  • From Louis Ohland@21:1/5 to Louis Ohland on Mon Jan 30 07:45:53 2023
    9F01244, not a direct IBM P/N - FRU :(

    Louis Ohland wrote:
    For all we know that's Photoshop. I have better vision looking through a
    pair of beer goggles.

    Can you partake in the creative process and sendt me some feelthy-feely pictures of your B017? All the Tool has right now on it is the extract
    from the INMOS publication, no images. Nothing on the actual card.

    Odd. Copyright for -BOTH- INMOS -AND- IBM. Not unknown, the Actionmedia
    has Intel and IBM copyrights.

    I can't unblur the numbers on the lower edge by the copyrights. Suggests
    an IBM P/N, but I can't make out the number of characters. Ex. 91F9768,
    two digits, letter, then four digits.

    Big Xilinx is possumbly an all-in-one gate array that serves as the MCA interface [and much more].

    5.0000 MHz?

    The DB37 pinout is in INMOS pubs [saw it last night].

    The earliest TRAMs communicated at 20Mbit/s, much faster than the period ethernet's 10Mb/s.


    Andrew Back wrote:
    On Sunday, 29 January 2023 at 21:16:14 UTC, Louis Ohland wrote:
    Prove me wrong. Waste of time.

    It certainly exists. Here is a photo of one of the two boards that I own:

    https://res.cloudinary.com/rs-designspark-live/image/upload/c_limit,w_1000/f_auto/v1/article/phpXfy3qd_8c18661cfe0fd25d0fe9c8c51708c2965f338ecc



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  • From Louis Ohland@21:1/5 to Andrew Back on Mon Jan 30 10:34:38 2023
    Are any TRAMs on the board?

    Andrew Back wrote:
    The INMOS B017 MCA card has 4x sockets for "TRAM" transputer modules (4x single width or 2x double). INMOS designated the driver package "S217" and it looks as though it possibly only supported DOS. Bit of a long shot, but thought I'd ask here in case
    anyone should have ever come across this or may even have a copy.

    Cheers,

    Andrew


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