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Zarchos wrote:Seller doesn't like French fries, so he can keep on eating Liberty fries without my hard-earnt money.
Bad luck for my museum, though.
calimero wrote:Looking at motherboard they are quite different than Falcon.
mikro wrote:calimero wrote:Looking at motherboard they are quite different than Falcon.
He? There had been two revisions (the seller sells two rev.2s and one rev.1 so you can compare them by yourself, too), rev. 2 nearly identical to the Falcon, only some of the ICs are on different places, so is rev.1.
mikro wrote:What is somewhat interesting are the first dev boards (not auctioned here), also mentioned by 1st1:
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Here you can clearly see an STE descent.
Bama wrote:I was tempted to bid but I lack the skills to maintain a prototype.
alexh wrote:+2* other sockets
crashman wrote:The photos from the auction.
mikro wrote:But you have forgotten the missing RAM card.
mikro wrote:Hmm, all of them seem to have missing the following parts: CPU, RAM card and TOS chips. The most expensive one has the NVRAM chip missing, too. So I'd say until I make a dump of my working Sparrow TOS in 2018 the buyer is stuck with a non-working machine for sure.
But the price is way too high for a (possibly) non-working machine, that's for sure. I wonder what kind of "enthusiasts" they are when they hadn't bothered to even try to put the missing components in.
Rustynutt wrote:mikro wrote:Hmm, all of them seem to have missing the following parts: CPU, RAM card and TOS chips. The most expensive one has the NVRAM chip missing, too. So I'd say until I make a dump of my working Sparrow TOS in 2018 the buyer is stuck with a non-working machine for sure.
But the price is way too high for a (possibly) non-working machine, that's for sure. I wonder what kind of "enthusiasts" they are when they hadn't bothered to even try to put the missing components in.
Pretty sure the seller is Wizztronics. If Steve says they could probably be made to work, I imagine he knows what he's talking about.
Surely, you wouldn't list Sparrow motherboards on eBay without a "non-working" liability statement
Also, thought the auction states world wide shipping....what's wrong with American fries?
Zarchos wrote:Good food is French or Italian, the rest is to feed only.
mikro wrote:Not needed. My (working) Sparrow also doesn't have them..
Cyprian wrote:mikro wrote:Not needed. My (working) Sparrow also doesn't have them..
congrsts. any details? photos?
Zarchos wrote:Rustynutt wrote:mikro wrote:Hmm, all of them seem to have missing the following parts: CPU, RAM card and TOS chips. The most expensive one has the NVRAM chip missing, too. So I'd say until I make a dump of my working Sparrow TOS in 2018 the buyer is stuck with a non-working machine for sure.
But the price is way too high for a (possibly) non-working machine, that's for sure. I wonder what kind of "enthusiasts" they are when they hadn't bothered to even try to put the missing components in.
Pretty sure the seller is Wizztronics. If Steve says they could probably be made to work, I imagine he knows what he's talking about.
Surely, you wouldn't list Sparrow motherboards on eBay without a "non-working" liability statement
Also, thought the auction states world wide shipping....what's wrong with American fries?
Nope.
Doesn't ship to France.
Maybe he doesn't know France is part of the world (it isn't on the North American continent, ya know).
American fries are greasy.
'American' fries, 1st of all do not exist : fries are from Belgium.
Same way Roquefort is from France, only, and so many other cheese, and Champagne too, and again so many other wines, can not be American because that's the name of French regions. And that is not negociable.
Sparkling fruit juice produced in Califonia will never ever be Champagne.
Real fries are cooked 3 times : 2 times in oil at different temperatures, then the last time in duck grease.
Good food is French or Italian, the rest is to feed only.
Again, that is not negociable.
Even if you have many B1s.
alexh wrote:Bama wrote:I was tempted to bid but I lack the skills to maintain a prototype.
It's missing 6 chips.
Bought a complete Sparrow from Wizztronics around 1996.
From what I recall, it wasn't very "Falcon softs" compatible.
Don't know about the other revisions, like Steve said they were probably only used to validate code.
The test kit must be primarily for audio. The field diagnostic kit fit on the expansion bus pins didn't it?
One I had, only the CPU was socketed. I'd be interested in one if the DSP was PGA, hard to tell from the photos. Purchased a few different DSP 56k compatible dev boards, integrating on to a Falcon board would be difficult with the SMT DSP. I'd rather not desolder the DSP and install an adapter. Else, get someone handy like yourself to build a slip over socket for the SMT and connect the dev board that say. The goal is being able to run a 56k compatible DSP around 200NhzBus will be a limiting factor. Some of you brute CT users might come up with a CT bus DSP card and take advance of that. Image how fast Apex Media could import FLX files
The later 56k chips also have specific audio functions in the "Symphony" line.
Other than that, and being a collector piece, the Sparrow really isn't ideal for development, IMHO
CPU (Probably a PGA 030 and obtainable),
FPU (Probably not needed),
ROM *2 (Well without this it's totally unusable)
+2* other sockets
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