On Aug 8, 17:17, John Honniball wrote:
> Which reminds me, anybody ever seen a 32000 second
> processor box for the BBC Micro? That's one I'd like for
> the collection (it's the used in all the examples in the
> above programming handbook).
I don't have one, alas, but I've seen several. There were three versions:
the first two were BBC B era and differed only in the amount of RAM fitted
(was it 256K and 1MB?). The third was renamed the Master Scientific, but
it was just the same device with a new label. About that time, Acorn
produced a Universal Coprocessor box, which was a box which looked the same
from the outside but had just the PSU and mounting sockets inside. It was
intended to house the coprocessors designed for internal use in the Master
128. There may have been a version of the 32K to fit in it, but I can't be
sure, and I seem to recall some technical problem with it.
Of course, there was also the 32016 fitted inside the Acorn Scientific
Workstation. That machine was a large box housing a BBC B or B+ mainboard,
underneath a Microvitec colour monitor chassis, with swing-out panels to
hold a PSU and a 32016 board, with two half-height 5.25" drive bays
underneath, holding a floppy and an ST125, and a separate keyboard and
3-button mouse. The 32016 was the same board used in the ordinary Beeb
32016 Second Processor, with 1MB RAM.
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Pete Peter Turnbull
Network Manager
University of York
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