erek
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pics?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.
Tom Gunter is alive and well in Austin, Texas. He still consults on occasion. He is 74. He was the youngest Motorolas to earn every award given by Motorola. He holds 12 patents with Motorola and is known as the Father of the 68000. There is a great video of an interview with some of the design team. It was conducted by the museum in Phoenix. Murray Goldman is living in San Diego, California. Gary Daniels passed away a few years ago.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.
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/
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.