Date   : Fri, 03 Mar 2006 10:29:34 +0000
From   : Jules Richardson <julesrichardsonuk@...>
Subject: Re: Odd looking Acorn board on Ebay.

David Hunt wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>> The bid history says:
>>> "The seller ended the listing early and cancelled all bids."
>>> It appears the seller then revised the listing title and description
>>> in some way and it is still going.
>>
>> It's up here now:
>> http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=8768375229
>> with a little more accurate info, and the addition of "V. RARE" in the
>> title!!
>>
> 
> I do hope the person that buys this puts those heatsinks on, I believe the
> Cambridge Workstation 32016 was clocked at 10MHz rather than 6MHz of the
> 32016 Second Processor/Co-Processor, so it will melt within a minute...

Hmm, yep - certainly the one sitting on the desk here has a 20MHz crystal, 
suggesting it's a /2 clock @10MHz...

I think all the ACWs I've seen have had heatsinks, too.

I suppose the board *might* survive without them if it was in open air - the 
ACW case design wasn't exactly brilliant for ventilation. I'd rather someone 
didn't toast the chips though - 32xxx series aren't exactly easy to come by. 
(That's assuming that the EBay board even works anyway, of course!)

> There is a "proper" cheese wedge 1Mbyte 32016 Second Processor going on eBay
> now.
> 
> http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&rd=1&item=8772074716

Ahh, I know the chap selling that; it's another ex-Cambridge uni labs one...

> I've only seen three of these in six years of using eBay!

Hmm, I've probably stumbled across 20 cheese wedge ones and 6 or 7 ACW ones in 
that time - EBay isn't necessarily a good indication of what's out there!

(Which reminds me - Eelco, if you're reading this, I've picked up that 32016 
cheese wedge copro to stick in the post for you now... will drop you an email)

cheers

Jules