🚀 go-pugleaf

In article <5374@sersun1.essex.ac.uk> lyond@essex.ac.uk (Lyons D M) writes:
>On British ITV, Tuesday 8/9/92 at 9 pm, something called a transputer was the 
>focus of a detective program ("Boon"). This device, a "printed circuit to help 
>computers talk to one another".  
>
>Some of the technology was quite correctly portrayed. It seemed important that 
>"the FPU was on the same chip as the CPU", although the actor seemed 
>uncomfortable with the line.  The industrial spies seemed to spend a lot of 
>time stripping the data from proms or EPLD's or such.
>
>Perhaps it was not a good idea to hide the thing (even in its carefully labeled 
>antistatic wrapper) in the cistern of a toilet.
>
>Did Inmos give permission for this usage?
>

Yes.

We gave them some old boards (B002's I think) from the cupboard.
We didn't know anything about the plot until the screening this week

Don't know where the idea came from.


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