Date   : Sun, 07 Aug 2005 11:29:31 +0000
From   : Jules Richardson <julesrichardsonuk@...>
Subject: Re: 80186 co-pro

On Sun, 2005-08-07 at 11:48 +0100, Richard Kilpatrick wrote:
> On 7 Aug 2005, at 11:32, Jules Richardson wrote:
> 
> > I picked up another ABC210 (ACW) yesterday (unlike my existing one  
>
> Cor, another one with the mouse board. Never did figure out what  
> mouse went with it though, and now I can't remember what happened to  
> the mouse I had with "P8 Prototype" on it, if I did give it to Witchy  
> with the ACW or not. The cable did match though.

This one doesn't have the mouse either - but having said that I'm back
on the site to pick up more stuff later, so it may be in with the next
carload.  (yesterday's load included an ARM copro, System 1, System 3,
System 5, R140, R225, A540, A680, and a Phoebe case!)

Oh, two boxes of PanOS media a docs too, which is rather nice to have (I
haven't seen the proper docs before now). Oh, and a spare 4MB 32016
board. Lots of stray hard disks too, supposedly with source to things
like Elite on them. Ex-Acorn people seem to be compulsive hoarders!

The ACW service manual talks as though the mouse board was standard
issue - doesn't say what mouse was needed though (I'm not sure if it
contains schematics for the mouse board either). I'm not aware of any
software that ever made use of it either, although I believe the service
manual mentions a demo disk (running on the B+ side of things) which
allowed you to see the mouse pointer moving about.

> I heard of ACWs being used by the RAF in some capacity...

Target practice? :)  It'd be nice to find someone who was involved in
'sales' of the machines who remembers what went where. 

cheers

Jules