Re: SuperPET history, and HOSTCM

From: silverdr_at_wfmh.org.pl
Date: Wed, 1 Jan 2014 14:40:10 +0100
Message-ID: <etPan.52c41ac9.6b8b4567.152@szaman.lan>
On 2013-12-31 at 20:28:04, Robert Ferguson (rob@bitscience.ca) wrote:

> I'm a new subscriber to the list, at the suggestion of Mike Naberezny. 

Welcome, Robert!

> I've just pushed a couple of things that I've been working on out  
> to my website, and I thought people here might find them interesting.

In fact and with no doubts! Especially that thanks to one extraordinary dude from Finland (Marko Mäkelä) I have the pleasure of being in a possession of a fully working [*] SuperPET...

> If anyone has comments or questions, please let me know.

First of all: great job! I haven’t yet tested the thing but if it works "as advertised" then the POSIX compilable HOSTCM alone is worth a prize. Also the timeline and background information gives a lot of new light about the truly mysterious machine in both “what’s inside” and “how come” meanings. You’ve done a very good job there!

--  
SD!


* - despite the fact that I almost fried it on my first try, forgetting that its PSU is a 110V one… You can imagine my heart’s state when I heard the loud “boom” upon flipping the switch… And you can imagine how much I was relieved when I realised that it was /only/ the fuse, which actually did its job and saved the rare machine…

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