Will do Jim. I used a less used email address for them to reply to and the junk filter for email on MacOSX is pretty good, so after marking the junk sales replies that come without any info that I requested, I won't have too much spam to deal with.

I am guilty of messing with you and Andreas after your heated replies in opposition to me labeling your posts as speculation. I found it quite amusing that you both objected to the use of that term so much and this just urged me on to play more of the "Devil's Advocate" in presenting alternate possibilities, no matter how absurd I thought they might be. Sorry, but as Flip Wilson would say "The Devil made me do it"!

As for the code date, it does not affect my belief that cloning is still a possibility, maybe as likely as rebadging slower chips. I would have to do more research on when the 68060 was first produced in relation to that 2002 date to increase or decrease the likely hood of clones being produced at that time.

In regard to the claims that no one has been successful in overclocking any 68060 faster than 108MHz, do we know if any of those overclocker's were using this 133 branded chip or not? If they really have been available since 2002, it would be strange if no one had tried using them and over clocking them (or under clocking them) prior to now. There seems to be so little information regarding this chip and what it was ever used in, it is hard to make good assumptions about it at this time. We might even find that there are some MC68060FE133 chips that have working MMU and/or FPU units and that the cheap units that the Natami team purchased were just rejects that were discarded because they had faulty MMU & FPU units. The advertising info on some sites that list suppliers of these chips do state that this chip has working MMU and FPU units. Normally I would not be writing these kinds of speculative possibilities without having something to base them on, but I mischieviously inserted myself into your discussion on this topic and have gotten sucked deeper into it now.



[ Edited by amigadave 05.06.2011 - 18:52 ]