Date   : Sat, 26 Sep 2009 00:39:55 +0200
From   : rick@... (Rick Murray)
Subject: Do you believe this?

Was browsing eBay looking for Acorn kit (though, I haven't found 
anything interesting enough to wonder how on earth cross-country 
cross-currency sales might work). I discovered a lot of "rare" and 
"vintage" Electrons. Goodness - I've got two stuck in a box someplace. 
How shameful! :-)

Anyway, I saw this:
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Acorn-Computers-Main-Board-0194-600-ISS-1-RT-452-0659_W0QQitemZ350254445472QQ

While the company contracted to get rid of the "PC" might be unwilling 
to offer much in the way of a description, especially if they are 
flogging off old motherboards, would it have killed them to have 
included the model number as written on the front of the machine?!?

Mmmm... It's a combi-I/O which puts it A5000 or later. There's no 
edge-connected podule backplane or SIMM socket so it is pre-RiscPC era.

The expansion looks a lot like the icky-ish A3000 style, and it's a 
single-chip machine (ARM/VIDC/MEMC on one chip; ARM250).

Weird 15 way(ish?) connector in the middle there. I think that'll be the 
"tell". It's the non-standard Econet socket, right?

I call this as an A4000 motherboard.


Best wishes,

Rick.

-- 
Rick Murray, eeePC901 & ADSL WiFI'd into it, all ETLAs!
BBC B: DNFS, 2 x 5.25" floppies, EPROM prog, Acorn TTX
E01S FileStore, A3000/A5000/RiscPC/various PCs/blahblah...