Date   : Sat, 25 Oct 2008 13:08:19 +0100
From   : mfirth@... (Michael Firth)
Subject: A500 development ROMs

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From: "Jules Richardson" <jules.richardson99@...>
To: <bbc-micro@...>
Sent: Saturday, October 25, 2008 3:57 AM
Subject: Re: [BBC-Micro] A500 development ROMs


> Pete Turnbull wrote:
>> Anyway, the Tube podule is as I remembered -- just a connector at each
>> end, a Tube ULA, three buffer chips, a resistor and some capacitors.
>
> Were they intended to provide TUBE functionality for other ARM-era 
> systems,
> too - or did they only exist as A500 boards? I'm just curious, as I 
> remember
> that I had one from who-knows-where at one stage.
>
As the Tube podule described makes the system a Tube slave, rather than a 
Tube host,
it would just have been a board for Acorn's use during the A500 development

A Tube host podule wouldn't have had the ULA, as that lives on the slave 
unit.

For Pete: Any chance of you uploading a picture of the podule somewhere?

Michael