Date   : Mon, 11 Aug 2014 15:14:28 +0100
From   : jeggy111@... (Gregory Allen)
Subject: 68000 Second Processor

Unfortunately, apprenticeship wages dont stretch far enough for me to have
a flutter really, but if anyone in the mailing list does get it, please
keep us informed!


On Mon, Aug 11, 2014@... PM, Eelco Huininga <eelco@...> wrote:

> Hi Gregory,
>
> Now this looks like an interesting piece of equipment, I've never seen
> this one before. Looks like it's all made on a breadboard, perhaps as a
> prototype.
> On the top left you can see a 40-pin IDC connector labelled TUBE. Also
> on the top left are two 6522's, probably used for the TUBE interface,
> which would also mean that it's not using the Acorn propietary TUBE
> protocol.
> The other interface bus might be a VMEbus connector.
>
> Would be nice to get some feedback from the original designer of this
> board, or to get a dump of the contents of the EPROM's...
>
> Cheers,
> Eelco
>
>
> Gregory Allen wrote on 11-8-2014 11:40:
> > Hi all,
> > I've been a member of this list for years now, but I've never posted
> > before. I was looking on bay today when I came across this strange
> > mc68k second processor:
> >
> http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Acorn-BBC-Micro-Computer-68000-Second-Processor-/201147898033?pt=UK_VintageComputing_RL&hash=item2ed55958b1
> >
> > Any thoughts as to what this might have been used for?
> > Regards
> >
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