[BBC-Micro] A500 development ROMs

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Fri Oct 24 08:38:00 BST 2008


In article <49017942.9010000 at dunnington.plus.com>,
   Pete Turnbull <pete at dunnington.plus.com> wrote:
> On 24/10/2008 01:54, Jules Richardson wrote:
> > Jonathan Graham Harston wrote:

> >> I'm not sure. I though Brazil was what the PC Springboard used, and
> >> so communicated via the PCI bus with the PC. 
> > 
> > ISA, not PCI - at least the pair I have. I think the Springboard was 
> > long dead as a product before PCI really came along.
>
> Yes.  IIRC the last Springboard was sold in early 1897

Just 26 years after Babbage died, things certainly moved fast from his big
brass difference machine!
Sprow.




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