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Date   : Mon, 25 Oct 2004 20:23:43 +0100
From   : tom@...
Subject: Re: Cumana 68008 second processor & OS-9/68000?

There was a 68008 copro available, or at least I remember seeing one 
reviewed in The Micro User. I think, though, it might just have been 
the Casper 68000 mentioned here:

    http://myweb.tiscali.co.uk/themicrouser/TMUIndex/TMU05-01.htm

I did a quick web search to see if the review had been OCRed, to 
check. Google couldn't find anything like that, but it did find this, 
which is unenlightening to this English-speaker but looks like 
something similar, and for sale to the highest bidder!

    http://www.marktplaats.nl/markt/hardware/acorn/686.htm

And here's a chap who has one, or at least used to:

    http://lists.gllug.org.uk/pipermail/gllug/2001-October/014953.html

--Tom

On 24 Oct 2004 at 15:29, Jules Richardson wrote:

> 
> Does anyone know if Cumana's 'UPGRADE' product ever went into
> production? 
> 
> I've just found a 6-page flyer about it. The hardware sat inside the BBC
> case apparently (as with Torch Z80) and consisted of 512KB memory, 68008
> CPU at 8MHz, and a SASI drive interface.
> 
> Software was a 68000 version of OS/9.
> 
> Did it ever actually happen?
> 
> cheers
> 
> Jules
> 
> 
> -- 
> I'm sorry for all the times I intentionally ducked underneath the sneeze
> guard at a salad bar and sneezed on everything until I couldn't sneeze
> any more. I have a problem.
> 
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