 The M212 was based on a standard T212 core with the addition of a disk controller for the ST 506 and ST 412 Shugart standards.TV-toy was to be the basis for a video game console and was joint project between Inmos and Sinclair Research.The links in the T212 and T414/T424 transputers had hardware DMA engines so that transfers could happen in parallel with execution of other processes.