The transputer is a famous High Performance Computing (HPC) architecture from the late 1980s/early 1990s, with Inmos being arguably the most famous example. Embodying a communication-centric, distributed-memory MIMD architecture designed explicitly for scalable parallel process networks, there are numerous potential efficiency advantages to this approach. In a world where scientific programmers are ever demanding more performance, but having to balance this with energy efficiency, this approach is worth another look. The Esperanto ET-SoC-1 was a 1,088-core RISC-V manycore accelerator organised around a mesh network-on-chip (NoC) with hierarchical cache and scratchpad memory structures. Purchased and released by the AI foundry who are focussed on open source, they are emphasising the transputer credentials of the architecture. In this abstract and associated poster we provide and independent exploration around how parallel code written for a T800 transputer array may be systematically mirrored onto the ET-SoC-1 compute fabric. We identify architectural similarities and highlight key divergences.