Back in 2007, I went to a surplus equipment sale at the University of Waterloo (they were a regular event where old systems were sold off cheaply). I bought a s

Back in 2007, I went to a surplus equipment sale at the University of Waterloo (they were a regular event where old systems were sold off cheaply). I bought a steel flight box that looked empty, but when I removed the bottom foam compartment, there were several transputer expansion boards (https://jasoneckert.github.io/myblog/the-transputer/transputer1.png https://jasoneckert.github.io/myblog/the-transputer/transput...). While I consider myself very well versed in the computing and supercomputing space from the 1990s onwards, I never heard of the transputer before then and used that opportunity to learn as much as I could from the plethora of books and documentation that the university library had on them. I was shocked at the parallels between transputer design and modern supercomputer, SoC, and superscalar processor design principles that were in widespread use by 2007. The transputer was well ahead of its time. And while it never achieved fame and fortune, it seems to have certainly influenced many many other technologies that did.