Rare - Motorola 68000 processor Engineering Sample

[erek]

https://www.ebay.com/itm/Rare-Motor...501864?hash=item2aeda2e428:g:z0IAAOSwoRRfG1wz

 

[longblock454]

The listing says, "came from the estate of a systems engineer", I hope Thomas Gunter hasn't passed.

I have found memories of the 68k series.

 

[GiGaBiTe]

The 68k was a really novel CPU for its time. In an age of everyone still making 8 bit CPU designs, Motorola was forward thinking and made a 16/32 bit design that still is useful today.

I have an engineering sample of a ceramic gold pin 68000 rated for 16 MHz made in late 1979 and it mostly works (EFX68000C16). I installed it in my Sega Genesis and most games run fine on it, but there are some like Out Run which crash with a garbled screen during gameplay.

 

[erek]

The 68k was a really novel CPU for its time. In an age of everyone still making 8 bit CPU designs, Motorola was forward thinking and made a 16/32 bit design that still is useful today.

I have an engineering sample of a ceramic gold pin 68000 rated for 16 MHz made in late 1979 and it mostly works (EFX68000C16). I installed it in my Sega Genesis and most games run fine on it, but there are some like Out Run which crash with a garbled screen during gameplay.

pics?

 

[GiGaBiTe]

I was a bit off on the date, it's 1985, not 1979. The 1979 was a different 68000 I had awhile back.

 

[longblock454]

Thanks for the great info, is your info from that video or are you perhaps a friend of the family? Got a link to the video?

 

[relapse808]

i have always wanted to mess around with the Sharp 68000 computer from Japan.

 

[jeffreyp]

https://www.ebay.com/itm/Rare-Motor...501864?hash=item2aeda2e428:g:z0IAAOSwoRRfG1wz

Owned a few 68000 series CPU's. Not mac either. Amiga 500-to 4000 series. 68000-68040, I owned them all. SLAC where I worked for 33 years. Amiga's were used from 1988-1993. In the day they were the best and leap years ahead in graphice and data aqusition. https://www6.slac.stanford.edu/

 

[jeffreyp]

Owned a few 68000 series CPU's. Not mac either. Amiga 500-to 4000 series. 68000-68040, I owned them all. SLAC where I worked for 33 years. Amiga's were used from 1988-1993. In the day they were the best and leap years ahead in graphice and data aqusition. https://www6.slac.stanford.edu/ BTW somebody mentioned the late 70's. That was the 6800 series.

 

[Centauri]

The list of processor architectures that would have made the tech world a better place if they'd managed to edge out x86 is far, far too long...

 

[longblock454]

What happened to the Thomas Gunter posts? I didn't get a chance to read the new one last night and this morning it's gone, couple others deleted also.