The RiscPC 700 with its delightful front doors.
Behind the doors, a plain old 36x CDROM drive, standard
floppy and a Zip100 I threw in to justify that extra slice!
With the top cover off, hinting at what's below. Note the
pins in the front holding the slices together.
Top slice removed showing the podules, power supply, drives
and peeking out in the back corner, the processors.
Bottom slice removed exposing the motherboard and hard drive.
The unpopulated slot at the back is for additional VRAM and the
unpopulated connector is for networking, although this machine
has a podule ethernet card.
The StrongARM 200MHz CPU card. For a 700, this is a fairly
powerful package and requires the use of RiscOS 4. This machine
has 4.02 ROMs fitted.
The "other" CPU card, the Acorn Gemini II, built
for Acorn by Aleph1. This particular example has the IBM
5x86C-100 fitted, a licenced Cyrix 5x86 CPU. This gives the
RiscPC solid performance in DOS/Windows applications on top of
its native functionality.
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