...and Turbochannel was originally the bus for the MIPS R3000-based Ultrix workstations; the Alpha firmware needed to be able to interpret MIPS machine code to

...and Turbochannel was originally the bus for the MIPS R3000-based Ultrix workstations; the Alpha firmware needed to be able to interpret MIPS machine code to speak to TC expansion cards. Somewhere, I have a Turbochannel FDDI card taken from an AlphaStation 3000-an obsolete I/O adapter for a forgotten network protocol, running on a defunct CPU, with firmware written in the native language of an even more defunct CPU.