The Linn Rekursiv Object-Oriented Computer

In 1996, I found a strange set of boards in a surplus store in Lakewood, Colorado. At the time, it appeared to me that they were from a Linn Rekursiv computer, made by Linn Smart Computing of Glasgow, Scotland. I purchased them, and they wound up stored in a relative's basement until I dug them out in July 2003. It is now apparent that they are not in fact from a Rekursiv, so I'm still looking for a Rekursiv, software, or documentation.

References:

"Rekursiv: Object-Oriented Computer Architecture" by David Harland, published by Ellis Horwood (ISBN 0-7458-0396-2)
"Rekursiv: An Object-Oriented CPU", BYTE magazine, November 1988
The Rekursiv: An Architecture for Artificial Intelligence, by David M. Harland, Hamish I.E. Gunn, Ian A. Pringle and Bruno Beloff, AI/EUROPA September 1986
Microcoding an Object-Oriented Instruction Set, by David M. Harland and Bruno Beloff, ACM/SIGARCH October 1986
Objekt: A Persistent Object Store with an Integrated Garbage Collector, by David M. Harland and Bruno Beloff, ACM/SIGPLAN April 1987
An Experimental Neural Network KBS Using an Object-Oriented Processor, by Gary Whittington
James Lothian's 1993 posting to comp.arch and alt.folklore.computers
Rekursiv Project
Lingo Language
Technical Report AUCS/TR9107, Object Storage Implementation for an OODB on REKURSIV: A Comparative Evaluation, A Mellanby, A Sorley & P M D Gray
The book Stack Computers: the new wave by Philip J. Koopman, Jr. is available online, and mentions the Rekursiv in Appendix A

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