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Description: Straight out of a dead parts-mule A2000. It\'s such a large and majestic looking chip that I decided to take a photograph
Picture Stats: Views: 2611 Filesize: 60.33kB Height: 768 Width: 1024 Posted by: graffias79 at July 05, 2004, 02:59:33 PM Image Linking Codes
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| save2600 Posts:3261 
| May 06, 2009, 11:09:20 PM I just read an article in the Jan. '87 issue of Commodore Magazine where Brian Doughtery (President of Berkeley Softworks - GEOS) was quoted as saying: "If you could give us a 4mhz 6502, we could run rings around an 8 MHZ 68000". Something about how efficient the 6502 RISC was in regards to NOT wasting cycles... I just love revisiting these old mags! :-o |
| odin Posts:6796 | November 16, 2008, 07:14:24 PM Er...it's obviously a Motorola 68000. So no, not a custom chip with a fancy name :-). |
| weirdami Posts:3776 | November 06, 2008, 08:36:53 PM No fancy name for this one or is it not a custom chip? |
| da9000 Posts:922 | September 02, 2008, 07:41:16 AM @PMC: well said! About form factor and all. |
| Homer Posts:1166 | May 04, 2008, 02:21:10 PM Ay, thats when chips were chips :-D |
| Oldsmobile_Mike Posts:6106 | August 08, 2007, 07:16:39 AM Nobody's commented on the fact that this is a 10MHz chip? Maybe I'm just forgetting everything about Amigas, but I thought they used 8MHz 68000's (running at 7.14 NTSC or 7.15 PAL, based on system clocks and whatnot). Is some kind of under-clocking going on here? |
| KThunder Posts:1509 | April 11, 2006, 09:56:21 PM he tries to boot... reserrect him... i have never heard anyone call an amiga a him, i usually call mine an it, most people use the feminine. |
| gdanko Posts:776 | January 08, 2006, 05:43:15 AM Ha! I have a dead parts-mule A2000 as wll. It's on the worbench in the garage. He tries to boot but has some flickering video display. I have been too lazy to see if I can resurrect him. This reminds me, I need a nice uncorroded rev6 board for primary my 2000. The MegAChip install requires cutting a trace near Gary in rev 4 boards and I am not willing to permanently alter it.  |
| FastRobPlus Posts:392
| July 30, 2004, 06:31:00 AM I've had that same Alsop mousepad for 10 years. |
| PMC Posts:2616
| July 16, 2004, 12:09:28 PM If we can get off the D***M***** topic for a minute... It's suprising just how large the stock 68000 CPU is. I remember opening up my A500 and being faced with the monster chip and feeling short changed when I took my A1200 to bits and found a very sorry looking CPU tucked away to one corner of the board, smaller than a postage stamp. The '040 was a return to form though, in all it's ceramic coated glory! |
| Cyberus Posts:5696
| July 11, 2004, 08:41:16 AM You know what guys? I came here to see the comments because I thought there would be lots of DoomMaster P-takes. And there aren't any! |
| that_punk_guy Posts:4526
| July 07, 2004, 10:55:36 PM Nah, I like the look of this. As far as I'm concerned, the mil-spec look can join the boing ball in room 101. ;-) |
| graffias79 Posts:335 | July 06, 2004, 12:39:18 AM True it is a plain jane 68000 but it sure is a faithful workhorse :-) -Jamie |
| Ilwrath Posts:2199 | July 05, 2004, 08:52:41 PM Good lookin' shot... :-) I must admit, that for sheer aesthetic value, I prefer the earlier ceramic/gold 68000 package that some people insist is the "military spec" version, though. :-) |
| Linchpin Posts:1483
| July 05, 2004, 03:42:15 PM I like your mousemat. |