Transputers (was: Re: CCC : Atari machines)

From: Kai Kaltenbach <kaikal_at_MICROSOFT.com>
Date: Fri Aug 15 11:43:20 1997

No transputers, but I know where you can get a 1450XLD from an ex-Atari
employee, although he is only willing to sell it if he gets "the right
price", whatever that is.

Kai

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> From: bluesky6_at_ix.netcom.com
> Reply To: classiccmp_at_u.washington.edu
> Sent: Friday, August 15, 1997 9:21 AM
> To: Discussion re-collecting of classic computers
> Subject: Re: Transputers (was: Re: CCC : Atari machines)
>
> I have actually seen the Atari Transputer machine at a show in Paris.
>
> If memory serves, one of the demos they had was the mandelbrot drawing
> program with the 4 transputers each taking a part of the screen and
> computing it at the same time while a stock ST had the 68K calculate
> the entire screen by itself.
>
> IMHO, Atari had a lot of great products in those days. Unfortunately,
> most of them were never really marketed or even so, were marketed
> poorly.
>
> Ben
>
Received on Fri Aug 15 1997 - 11:43:20 BST