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.
>