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 <[email protected]> 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 > >
