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Date: 20 October 1988, 20:51:26 WUT
>From: ABELE    at AWIWUW11    (Gerhard Gonter)
To:   transputer@TCGOULD.TN.CORNELL.EDU
Subject: Re: Re: Atari Workstation

> Date: 10 Oct 88 01:50:03 GMT
> From: braner@tcgould.tn.cornell.edu  (Moshe Braner)
> Subject: Re: Atari Workstation
>
> A while ago I read about a transputer box that plugs into a plain
> Atari ST.
> Price?
> Alternatively, has anybody tried to interface an Inmos link adaptor
> chip to the ST parallel port or DMA port?
> - Moshe Braner

The west german computer magazine c't published articles about
Transputer Boards and Atari ST for self-makers:
1987 Volumes 10 - 12: TEK 4/8, a self-make project to build a
                      B004 compatible board with OCS (Occam Compiler)
1987 Volume 7:        a universal interface for the Atari ST
1988 Volume 10:       Server software for the Atari to use OCS
                      with the universal interface

I think there was also an article about a INMOS-Link Adapter
for the ATARI ST parallel port, but I can't find the references.

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These things can be obtained as self-make kits:
TEK 4/8 basis set: printed circuit board
                   3 PALs
                   OCS (Occam-2 Compiler, Server, Startup-Utilities)
         Price: IBM-PC Version   DM 479.--
                ATARI ST Version DM 499.--

Universal Interface:
    (ECB-Bus, IBM-PC-Slotcard)
    EPROM-Bank (512 K)
         Price: DM 87.--

programmed PLD for the Universal Interface:
    Price: DM 35.--

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I can't say if the combination TEK 4/8, OCS, Atari St and
Universal Interface really works. Maybe there is somebody
who uses this. The interface should only work with the INMOS B004
(or any other PC-Transputer). The only problem might be
Atari version of the server software. Maybe the server is
available seperately.

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c't back issues and more information can be obtained by:
    Verlag HEINZ HEISE GmbH Co KG
    Postfach 610407
    D-3000 Hanover 61
    Germany (West)

the kits can be obtained by:
    eMedia GmbH
    Bissendorfer Strasse 8
    Postfach 610106
    D-3000 Hanover 61
    Germany (West)

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Disclaimer: I didn't say anything, did I?
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ABELE at AWIWUW11                                        GG