Date   : Sat, 25 Oct 2008 14:36:08 +0100
From   : pete@... (Pete Turnbull)
Subject: A500 development ROMs

On 25/10/2008 03:57, Jules Richardson wrote:
> 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.

Well, physically and electrically they will fit anything that has podule 
expansion -- such as an A305, A310, A440, etc.  They wouldn't be useful, 
though as the O/S has no support for the Tube.  Besides, why would you 
use an A310, for example, as a second processor to a Beeb, with 
seriously inferior graphics and sound and a poorer keyboard, instead of 
as a computer in its own right?

The Tube podule certainly never existed as a product, and was never 
available to purchase.

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Pete                                           Peter Turnbull
                                               Network Manager
                                               University of York