Acorn Second Processors - test-drb@ccmp.vtda.org

6 Jun 2007

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   Hi,

   Changing
the subject slightly, IIRC the original "Acorn 6502
Second Processor" cheese-wedge was just that, a faster 6502? 
 Actualy, it's a 3MHz 65C02.  
 Ah, thanks for that....it's been a few years since I had the lid off mine.

  >>....problems (in fact, total failure IIRC?) when I tried running
  >>a 65c02 in a Model B sometime in the early 90's?
  >  I too recently tried that, with three new 65c02's. The BBC would have 
 none of it : it only booted with the NMOS 6502

 							Jos 
IIRC this was caused by a slight timing difference of the Phi2 signal.
This could be solved by placing two 220pF ceramic capacitors over pins
7 and 11 of IC29 and IC37. This would fix the Beeb's booting problem, but
unfortunately this would create a DRAM timing problem for Solidisk's
96k Sideways RAM expansion for the 32k SWR board. Took me (literally)
years to figure that out!

One of my 'when-i-have-time' things is experimenting with the capacitor's
value to see if I can find the right value :-)

Cheers,
Eelco