Date   : Sat, 25 Oct 2008 18:19:55 +0100
From   : pete@... (Pete Turnbull)
Subject: A500 development ROMs

On 25/10/2008 16:32, Jules Richardson wrote:
> Pete Turnbull wrote:

>> The Tube podule certainly never existed as a product, and was never 
>> available to purchase.
> 
> Well that's weird, then. Mine might have been Jon Thackray's - he wrote the 
> keyboard code for the A500, and I have some of his old media; it's possible 
> there was a TUBE podule in there, too, I suppose.

It's more than likely, in fact I guess that most, maybe all, A500s had 
one.  Acorn made quite a few things that were for internal use and never 
sold as products.  There would be no point in selling a Tube podule 
because it wouldn't be useful with anything but an A500 machine, and 
that wasn't a saleable product either -- all were intended for use 
internally or offered (with an NDA) to a small number of developers 
before the A310 launch (probably for a price).

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Pete                                           Peter Turnbull
                                               Network Manager
                                               University of York