[BBC-Micro] A500 development ROMs

Adam Sampson ats at offog.org
Fri Oct 24 10:46:50 BST 2008


Pete Turnbull <pete at dunnington.plus.com> writes:

> I'm sure the reason you think there was an A500 copro is simply that
> early on, the A500 needed the Tube and a Beeb to do I/O/.

There are some pictures of an "A500 second processor" board here that
looks distinctly different from a regular A500 motherboard:

  http://acorn.chriswhy.co.uk/8bit_Upgrades/Acorn_A5002ndProc.html

It appears to have video, audio and keyboard interfaces, but no disk
controller...

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Adam Sampson <ats at offog.org>                         <http://offog.org/>



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