16-Bit podules on an A4000

[IanS]

I posted this on discord the other day. It's fairly trivial to use 16-bit podules on an A4000 (or A3020) by using BD8-BD15 that are generated for the IDE bus. It would be possible on the A3010 but it would also need to generated BD8-BD15 like the IDE upgrade does viewtopic.php?p=166064#p166064

Combine this with multiple podules viewtopic.php?p=395374#p395374 we should be able to make the A4000 the way Acorn should have made it.

I think the A4000 should have been somewhere between an A3020 and A5000, rather than an A3020 in a different box. It should have had 2 full size podule slots, half the number from the A5000.

[thecellartroll]

Very cool. And yes, I totally agree that the A4000 was unnecessarily crippled by using the same mainboard as the A3020. There is loads of space in that case for useful goodies.

[AndyMc1280]

Bounce up and down and shout wibble if an A3000 podule box can be adapted to work on an A3010

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[sirbod]

Neat, such a simple solution as well.

[philpem]

Nice mod, IanS! (BaZ just sent me the link)

I've built a rackmount A4000, and this is giving me ideas for future upgrades - should I find a Podule NIC.

It seems like a really easy mod, but for a full-length (Eurocard) Podule, it'll probably need a fairly long PCB and some mechanical support?