On Thu, Dec 4, 2025 at 10:18 AM Adrian Godwin via cctalk <[email protected]> wrote: > > 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/ >
There was also an 32016 second processor for a normal BBC micro, sometime badged 'Cambridge Coprocessor'. It came in the normal 'cheesewedge' case and IIRC had 1MByte of memory The ACW was based on a BBC B+ mainboard. It was fitted in a case with a Microvitec colour monitor chassis, PSU, 80-cylinder floppy drive, SCSI (or was it strictly SASI) interface which was connected to an ST412 interface board and thence to a hard drive. The 32016 board was plugged into the Tube connector on the B+ board, but was much larger than the one in the 'cheesewedge' case and could take up to 4MBytes of RAM. FWIW I have an example of each. I also have a Whitechapel MG1 which is 32016-based. I don't recall an 8086 second processor for the BBC micro in the Cheesewedge case (there was an internal 80186 second processor board for the BBC Master). I only remember 4 such second processors -- 65C02, Z80, 32016 and ARM 1. Yes, I have all 4. -tony
