28 Nov
2006
28 Nov
'06
4:10 p.m.
The place I used to work got talked into one (for resale, but no one was
ever interested in it). I used it because it could read all manner of
exotic floppy disks, and I even interfaced an 8" (shugart, I think) to it.
Wasn't very hard. I was able to read weird compupro disks with it.
Ours had the 68000 (wasn't it a 68010?), a 6502, and the Intel or Zilog
chip-- can't recall which.
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Chris M wrote:
Maybe more so then I even thought. If you're not
familiar with it, the Dimension 68000 tried to be all
things to all people. Surely not an unobtainable goal,
there have been numerous add-on cards for other
machines that worked well, but the "emulation" aspects
didn't work out so well (I'm told). It probably took
more resources then they could muster at the time, or
just more time. Mindcraft I think was the company
IIRC. I have one reserved for me by someone, but I'm
trying to raise the capitol to secure several more
boxes (albeit not working) to distribute to the masses
when the time is right. Truly a unique uh platform as
far as I can tell.
Was curious if there was anything like it across the
pond. Or did I ask this already...
The 68k portion worked quite well though. If you
google it you'll find there was a few at work at JPL
back in the day.
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I'm
going to submit the Dimension 68000. No it wasn't
loaded as stock with FOUR cpu's, but they were
"intended" as optional equipment - 68000 running
CP/M
68K, 8088 for MS-DOS, 6502 for Apple DOS, and a
Z80
for CP/M. So there.
Actually, I'm not sure if that should count or
not... it's certainly closer to
qualifying than something which just happened to
have CPUs as peripheral
processors. I suppose it depends on how "optional"
they were and how much
additional circuitry was needed to support them.