Date   : Mon, 25 Jan 2021 07:12:55 -0600
From   : jules.richardson99@... (Jules Richardson)
Subject: Completely expanded "Cheese wedge" BBC Micro - just

On 1/25/21 6:37 AM, Pete Turnbull wrote:
> The last "copro" was the A500, which was the development unit for the
> Archimedes.  Rather than being intended to give a Beeb superpowers, it
> was intended to give an ARM processor access to I/O.  It was a plain
> blue-grey metal box similar in size to an Archimedes, with a Tube Podule
> (one of which I still have) to connect to a Model B.  Various
> incarnations offloaded less and less to the Beeb, and several of those
> units were eventually provided to the ISPs who were developing software
> prior to the Archimedes launch in July 1987.

That's interesting - I've always remembered the A500 copro as having the 
Tube connection on-board, but having just located a photo it seems that 
you're right.  I had a Tube podule, but it was the one with MIDI etc. 
hardware on-board, so possibly a different animal?

Jules