Found them...Definicon 68020. It's a 16-bit long ISA card with a 68020 CPU,
68881 FPU, 68851 MMU, an SCN2681 DUAR/T and a *lot* of glue.
From one of the call-out boxes in the articles, it
looks like a pro-grade
type of card. Basic hardware is $995 plus $99 for a serial
port upgrade kit.
Software listed includes Assembler, BASIC, C and Pascal (based on both SVS
and LLL), and Fortran. Prices range from $169 to $459.
When I have a chance, I'll scan the articles.
Rich
On 7/12/10 11:42 PM, "Bernd Kopriva" <bernd at kopriva.de> wrote:
Hi,
sorry, my fault: i have just looked up the first reference in Google,
instead of rechecking ...
... it should be described in Byte, 7+8, 1986
Ciao Bernd
Richard Cini wrote:
> I pulled them out and looked. 8/1985 (vol 10, iss. 8) contains the
> following:
>
> * Build the BASIC-52
> * The DSI-32 coprocessor board (National 32032 processor)
> * An introductory article on the Amiga.
>
> The 9/1985 issue (vol 10, iss. 9) contains the following:
>
> * Build the HD64180 Z80 system
> * DSI-32 part 2
> * EGO home-built CPU
>
> Now, having said that, I have a small database of articles that I keep, so I
> looked for 68k SBC-like articles. There were two articles that discussed the
> chip itself, one that discussed the MECB Educational Board, one for the
> VU68k SBC (Jan 1984), and a 68k processor comparison discussion.
>
> So, I pulled the VU68k issue and indeed it is a 68k SBC built on a Vector
> S100 card and uses only 15 chips. It doesn't appear that it uses the S100
> buss for anything other than power. It also has a monitor program which
> looks pretty good from the command summary but alas, no code.
>
> I'm going to be traveling for a week or so but when I come back I can scan
> it if people are interested.
>
> Rich
>
>
>
> On 7/12/10 3:44 PM, "Ethan Dicks"<ethan.dicks at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
>> On Mon, Jul 12, 2010 at 3:39 PM, Bernd Kopriva<bernd at kopriva.de>
wrote:
>>
>>> Hi,
>>> this is the "The Definicon 68020 Coprocessor", described in Byte
8+9, 1985
>>> ...
>>> ... but it wasn't part of Circuit Cellar
>>>
>> Hmm... I think I have those issues in a closet. I'll have to go dig
>> them out. The M68K family is one of my favorites (in no small part
>> due to making a living with it between 1984 and 1994).
>>
>> -ethan
>>
>
> Rich
>
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> Rich Cini
> Collector of Classic Computers
> Build Master and lead engineer, Altair32 Emulator
>
http://www.altair32.com
>
http://www.classiccmp.org/cini
>
>
>
>
>
>
Rich
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http://www.altair32.com
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