4 Dec
2025
4 Dec
'25
4:18 a.m.
There was an add-on for the BBC Micro using the 32016. Like other such
add-ons, the BBC acted as a terminal / mass storage etc. while the add-on
did the computing. There was at least an 8086 too.
It was packaged in a large brown cubical box called the ACW or Acorn
Cambridge Workstation. No traditional BBC Micro keyboard wedge in evidence,
just a dumb keyboard.
https://www.computinghistory.org.uk/det/33101/Acorn-Cambridge-Workstation/
On Tue, Nov 25, 2025 at 3:39 PM Jon Elson via cctalk <cctalk(a)classiccmp.org>
wrote:
On 11/24/25 02:30, Jim Davis via cctalk wrote:
A weird bird, NS 32016/32032 High performance
for 1987. The only one I
know of burned in a house fire.
I cloned a Logical Microcomputer Co. 16032 computer on
wirewrap cards and interfaced to a memory unit from an MRI
scanner. It was GLACIALLY slow, like it took FIVE clock
minutes to load emacs! I sold the hardware at a VCF show a
couple years ago. Last VCF I sold a bunch of Nat Semi 16032
development boards in a Multibus card rack that was a
multiprocessor accelerator for a VAX 780. It took about 7
of these to roughly double the VAX's speed.
Jon