It's an expansion for the Amiga 500 and 2000. Both of these came natively with a 68000 running at 7MHz (or was it 10? It's been a long time); this sits in the CPU socket and gives you a 68030 running rather faster than that, and the possibility of a floating-point coprocessor. And a daughterboard for it (which would be, I guess, a grand-daughterboard of the actual motherboard this was sitting on) could have added more RAM.
This object makes me feel old, as I can remember when this kind of CPU upgrade was incredibly expensive and lightning fast. Now even PDAs and smartphones are in the gigahertz range of speeds and you can probably get more power than a tricked-out Amiga could ever muster on three chips.
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Date: 2009-08-12 02:44 pm (UTC)This object makes me feel old, as I can remember when this kind of CPU upgrade was incredibly expensive and lightning fast. Now even PDAs and smartphones are in the gigahertz range of speeds and you can probably get more power than a tricked-out Amiga could ever muster on three chips.
ps. "ought"