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Offline ejstansTopic starter

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Amiga 1200 onboard FPU
« on: July 07, 2009, 04:14:56 PM »
It seems Commodore had great difficulty nailing down the specs of the Amiga 1200. Eg the schematics show alternative 16-bit ROM and onboard flashrom circuits. Anyway, there is also an onboard 68881 FPU circuit and unlike the others, this is actually present on the motherboard layout. Has someone tried installing an FPU here? Just curious :)
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Re: Amiga 1200 onboard FPU
« Reply #1 on: July 07, 2009, 09:22:25 PM »
Alrighty, interesting. Wonder why they didn't bother to put a socket there themselves...
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A500 1.3 / 512KiB slowmem / GVP HD8 w/ 8MiB fastmem & 52MB HDD
A600 2.05 / 1GB SSD
A1200 3.0 / Blizzard 1200/4 w/ 68882 @ 33MHz / 1GB SSD
A1200T 3.0 / Apollo 1260 w/ 68EC060 @ 50MHz & 16 MiB fastmem / 4GB SSD
 

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Re: Amiga 1200 onboard FPU
« Reply #2 on: July 07, 2009, 09:43:00 PM »
Quote from: delshay;514862
cost..
Yea, maybe the money they spent on patch work on the boards meant they couldn't afford that socket :lol:
"It is preferable not to travel with a dead machine."

A500 1.3 / 512KiB slowmem / GVP HD8 w/ 8MiB fastmem & 52MB HDD
A600 2.05 / 1GB SSD
A1200 3.0 / Blizzard 1200/4 w/ 68882 @ 33MHz / 1GB SSD
A1200T 3.0 / Apollo 1260 w/ 68EC060 @ 50MHz & 16 MiB fastmem / 4GB SSD