manuals, mac software

From: Wirehead Prime <wirehead_at_retrocomputing.com>
Date: Fri Jan 22 16:54:32 1999

> disks from work. Actually I'm rather annoyed, because a former employee
> came back and asked for the N-Cube computer, and was given permission to
> take it! Thats a multi-processor machine with hypercube data exchange links
> between processors.. Sigh.. and it looked kool too (we had christmas lights
> blinking inside its smokey front panel, and students would see it and be
> very impressed at all the computing that was being done!)

Hmmm... I have a manilla envelope that was sent to me in 1988 or 1989
containing a Macintosh 800k floppy and some documentation from a
gentleman named Alex Ho.

That's not the interesting part. The interesting part is that it
contains source and docs for a Macintosh based hypercube using localtalk
to connect the nodes. It contains a letter from the Concurrent
Computation Program at the California Institute of Technology addressed
to me that reads:

Enclosed please find C3P 253b, C3P 582, C3P 573, and a Macintosh diskette
which contains the Mac-Cube software package. It includes source,
binary, documentation, and installation notes...

Never got around to using it though. I do have 3 or 4 SEs, 2 LC class
machines and a pair of IIci's I could try it out with though. =-)

Anthony Clifton - Wirehead
Received on Fri Jan 22 1999 - 16:54:32 GMT