14 Jan
2003
14 Jan
'03
6:18 a.m.
I've just run over probably 100-200lbs (45-90kg) of Motorola VME cards...
from 68010 processor cards, to memory, and I/O cards.
Now, there's not
chance I would want to hold on to these, so I'm wondering
if anyone else
is interested in some of the cards. I can't guarantee anything now, just
tell me if you're interested or not. I'll try to get some cards to
whoever is interested.
I haven't looked at the cards much yet, so I don't exactly know what's
there for I/O and memory cards. There might also be a power supply or two
and maybe an intact backplane bus card (the few I saw were snapped in
half).
Pat
--
Purdue Universtiy ITAP/RCS
Information Technology at Purdue
Research Computing and Storage
http://www-rcd.cc.purdue.edu
14 Jan
14 Jan
6:45 a.m.
Patrick:
I may be interested in some of these, especially if
there is a backplane and one of the processors has an
Ethernet port. Some of the I/O cards may also be
handy.
A 68010 must be what, 15 years+ old? I'm not that
familiar with the architecture; I've used 68040s and
up on VME.
What if any O/S is there? Do you know how these were
used? I'm interested in getting some
realtime/embedded hardware to play with.
Let me know,
Frank
--- Patrick Finnegan <pat(a)purdueriots.com> wrote:
I've just run over probably 100-200lbs (45-90kg)
of
Motorola VME cards...
from 68010 processor cards, to memory, and I/O
cards. Now, there's not
chance I would want to hold on to these, so I'm
wondering if anyone else
is interested in some of the cards. I can't
guarantee anything now, just
tell me if you're interested or not. I'll try to
get some cards to
whoever is interested.
I haven't looked at the cards much yet, so I don't
exactly know what's
there for I/O and memory cards. There might also be
a power supply or two
and maybe an intact backplane bus card (the few I
saw were snapped in
half).
Pat
--
Purdue Universtiy ITAP/RCS
Information Technology at Purdue
Research Computing and Storage
http://www-rcd.cc.purdue.edu
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7:05 a.m.
At the chemical plant I used to work at, the Texas Instruments operators
workstations ran off of a MVME Motorola 68xxx-based VME chassis.
It ran some form of Berkeley -derived UNIX. It had SCSI hard drives, a tape
backup, serial ports, and ethernet.
- Matt
At 12:48 PM 1/14/2003 -0800, you wrote:
Patrick:
I may be interested in some of these, especially if
there is a backplane and one of the processors has an
Ethernet port. Some of the I/O cards may also be
handy.
A 68010 must be what, 15 years+ old? I'm not that
familiar with the architecture; I've used 68040s and
up on VME.
What if any O/S is there? Do you know how these were
used? I'm interested in getting some
realtime/embedded hardware to play with.
Let me know,
Frank
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I've just run over probably 100-200lbs
(45-90kg) of
Motorola VME cards...
from 68010 processor cards, to memory, and I/O
cards. Now, there's not
chance I would want to hold on to these, so I'm
wondering if anyone else
is interested in some of the cards. I can't
guarantee anything now, just
tell me if you're interested or not. I'll try to
get some cards to
whoever is interested.
I haven't looked at the cards much yet, so I don't
exactly know what's
there for I/O and memory cards. There might also be
a power supply or two
and maybe an intact backplane bus card (the few I
saw were snapped in
half).
Pat
--
Purdue Universtiy ITAP/RCS
Information Technology at Purdue
Research Computing and Storage
http://www-rcd.cc.purdue.edu
=====
= M O N T V A L E S O F T W A R E S E R V I C E S P. C.=
Clayton Frank Helvey, President
Montvale Software Services, P. C.
P.O. Box 840
Blue Ridge, VA 24064-0840
Phone: 540.947.5364 Email: msspcva(a)yahoo.com
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7:31 a.m.
One thing I forgot to add, I'm going to have to pony up some cash for the
cards, and would like to be able to get at least $1/lb + shipping to pay
back my expenses.
Pat
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Information Technology at Purdue
Research Computing and Storage
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On Tue, 14 Jan 2003, Patrick Finnegan wrote:
I've just run over probably 100-200lbs (45-90kg)
of Motorola VME cards...
from 68010 processor cards, to memory, and I/O cards. Now, there's not
chance I would want to hold on to these, so I'm wondering if anyone else
is interested in some of the cards. I can't guarantee anything now, just
tell me if you're interested or not. I'll try to get some cards to
whoever is interested.
I haven't looked at the cards much yet, so I don't exactly know what's
there for I/O and memory cards. There might also be a power supply or two
and maybe an intact backplane bus card (the few I saw were snapped in
half).
Pat
--
Purdue Universtiy ITAP/RCS
Information Technology at Purdue
Research Computing and Storage
http://www-rcd.cc.purdue.edu
3:27 p.m.
Patrick:
OK, how about a card/part list then?
I'd not like to buy a lead-acid battery backup card,
for instance, under those terms. :>
I also don't want to buy a lot of stuff I couldn't
use.
-- Frank
--- Patrick Finnegan <pat(a)purdueriots.com> wrote:
One thing I forgot to add, I'm going to have to
pony
up some cash for the
cards, and would like to be able to get at least
$1/lb + shipping to pay
back my expenses.
Pat
--
Purdue Universtiy ITAP/RCS
Information Technology at Purdue
Research Computing and Storage
http://www-rcd.cc.purdue.edu
On Tue, 14 Jan 2003, Patrick Finnegan wrote:
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= M O N T V A L E S O F T W A R E S E R V I C E S P. C.=
Clayton Frank Helvey, President
Montvale Software Services, P. C.
P.O. Box 840
Blue Ridge, VA 24064-0840
Phone: 540.947.5364 Email: msspcva(a)yahoo.com
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I've just run over probably 100-200lbs
(45-90kg)
of Motorola VME cards...
from 68010 processor cards, to memory, and I/O
cards. Now, there's not
chance I would want to hold on to these, so
I'm
wondering if anyone else
is interested in some of the cards. I can't
guarantee anything now, just
tell me if you're interested or not.
I'll try to
get some cards to
whoever is interested.
I haven't looked at the cards much yet, so I don't
exactly know what's
there for I/O and memory cards. There might also
be a power supply or two
and maybe an intact backplane bus card (the few I
saw were snapped in
half).
Pat
--
Purdue Universtiy ITAP/RCS
Information Technology at Purdue
Research Computing and Storage
http://www-rcd.cc.purdue.edu
17 Jan
17 Jan
1:17 a.m.
On Tue, 14 Jan 2003, Patrick Finnegan wrote:
I've just run over probably 100-200lbs (45-90kg)
of Motorola VME cards...
from 68010 processor cards, to memory, and I/O cards. Now, there's not
chance I would want to hold on to these, so I'm wondering if anyone else
is interested in some of the cards. I can't guarantee anything now, just
tell me if you're interested or not. I'll try to get some cards to
whoever is interested.
I haven't looked at the cards much yet, so I don't exactly know what's
there for I/O and memory cards. There might also be a power supply or two
and maybe an intact backplane bus card (the few I saw were snapped in
half).
I know it's bad for to respond to my own message, but I found out some
more info on the cards... Aparently, they were from a Purdue home-brew
parallel processing machine called 'PASM' - for Purdue Advanced(?)
SIMD/MIMD (or Purdue Adaptor for Machine if you prefer). The 'network
input/output stage' cards seem to be buffered bus I/O cards (have a bunch
of 74LS541's and 74LS244's + address decode logic).
There's a journal article describing the machine that I'm going to pick up
a copy of: "The Design and Prototyping of the PASM Reconfigurable Parallel
Processing System" in 'Parallel Computing: Paradigms and Applications'.
If you want more information availble online, try searching
http://www.google.com/purdue for 'PASM'.
Pat
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Information Technology at Purdue
Research Computing and Storage
http://www-rcd.cc.purdue.edu
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