Fancy Adding A Transputer Or Two To Your Atari ST?

Atari’s Rollercoaster: From Pong Glory to Desert Burial - THE iBULLETIN

Atari went from inventing the home video game boom to burying millions of cartridges in the New Mexico sand, all in just ten hectic years. The tale reads like Silicon Valley mythology, complete with beer taps in the office, hot-tub meetings, and a culture clash that wrecked an industry icon. Pong in Bars And The Birth Of An Industry The story starts in 1972 when Nolan Bushnell and Ted Dabney plugged the very first Pong machine into a California …

Fancy Adding A Transputer Or Two To Your Atari ST?

Has anybody heard of the ATW800 transputer workstation? The one that used a modified Atari ST motherboard as a glorified I/O controller for a T-series transputer?  No, we hadn’t either, but transputer superfan [Axel Muhr] has created the ATW800/2, an Atari Transputer card, the way it was meant to be. The transputer was a neat idea when it was conceived in the 1980s. It was designed specifically for parallel and scientific computing and featured …