[Oberon] Re (2): FPGA Oberon vs Ceres (was: Debugging FPGA oberon via serial line?)

[Chris Burrows]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Oberon [mailto:oberon-bounces at lists.inf.ethz.ch] On Behalf Of
> Nemo
> Sent: Tuesday, 5 February 2019 8:38 AM
> To: ETH Oberon and related systems
> Subject: Re: [Oberon] Re (2): FPGA Oberon vs Ceres (was: Debugging
> FPGA oberon via serial line?)
> 
> On 04/02/2019, peter at easthope.ca <peter at easthope.ca> wrote (in part):
> > From:	Michael Schierl <schierlm at gmx.de>
> > Date:	Sun, 27 Jan 2019 14:34:32 +0100
> >> ... does anybody have disk/media/rom images of the original Ceres
> >> machine, ...
> >
> > The Computer History Museum has a Ceres 1 and a Ceres 3.
> > https://www.computerhistory.org/collections/catalog/X2321.2002A
> > https://www.computerhistory.org/collections/catalog/102674736
> 
> The first link claims that they also have CDs with documenation
> thereon.  What is on there and could be made available online?
> 

There is quite extensive documentation of the Ceres (1, 2, and 3) Hardware
online at ETH including schematics, parts lists, PAL code etc.

Porting Medos-2 onto the Ceres workstation, Frank Peschel

https://www.research-collection.ethz.ch/handle/20.500.11850/69803

Development and analysis of a workstation computer, Johann Jakob Eberle

https://www.research-collection.ethz.ch/handle/20.500.11850/139251

Hardware description of the workstation Ceres, Hans Eberle

https://www.research-collection.ethz.ch/handle/20.500.11850/69802

Design of the processor-board for the Ceres-2 workstation, Beat Heeb

https://www.research-collection.ethz.ch/handle/20.500.11850/68460

Hardware description of the workstation Ceres-3, Beat Heeb, Immo Noack

https://www.research-collection.ethz.ch/handle/20.500.11850/69237

Ceres-Net, Niklaus Wirth

https://www.research-collection.ethz.ch/handle/20.500.11850/68965

If anybody was interested in recreating a Ceres it might be the guy who runs
this website. There are a number of Ceres-related photos included:

http://www.cpu-ns32k.net/Ceres.html

Regards,
Chris

Chris Burrows
CFB Software
http://www.astrobe.com