Top collectable machines

From: Tony Eros <tony.eros_at_machm.org>
Date: Fri Mar 8 07:21:48 2002

Are you sure about that? I thought Stardent came from a merger between
Ardent and Stellar back in 1989.

-- Tony

At 12:53 AM 3/8/2002 -0500, you wrote:
>Stardent was not a follow-on from Ardent.
>
>Stardent made a graphics supercomputer with a fancy very wide data path
>between
>the CPU and the graphics engine. Something like 512 bits wide...
>
>My wife worked there. Stardent attempted to generate a market for a product
>that did not already exist. Some were sold for scientific visualization and
>other high-end uses. Quite a unique machine really...not your average
>workstation at all.
>
>"Merle K. Peirce" wrote:
>
> > There are some pictures of our Ardent on the museum.com site. Stardent
> > was the successor name It's a nice looking Unix box.
> >
> > On Thu, 7 Mar 2002, Ben Franchuk wrote:
> >
> > > Robin Lake wrote:
> > > >
> > > > So, is anyone interested in a couple of Stardent TITANs? LOTS of spare
> > > > boards. Several monitors.
> > > >
> > > > Rob Lake
> > > > lake_at_cwru.edu
> > >
> > > What is/was it?
> > > --
> > > Ben Franchuk - Dawn * 12/24 bit cpu *
> > > www.jetnet.ab.ca/users/bfranchuk/index.html
> > >
> >
> > M. K. Peirce
> >
> > Rhode Island Computer Museum, Inc.
> > Shady Lea, Rhode Island
> >
> > "Casta est quam nemo rogavit."
> >
> > - Ovid
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