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A500 daughter board identification

VenomRolls

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Hi everyone! Recently picked up my first A500 of off an ebay auction.
After pulling out the ram expansion and cutting the battery off, I decided to take a look inside the machine itself.
To my surprise, there's a daughter board that I don't recognize from photos of the stock PCB. Can anyone help identify it?Snapchat-112489596.jpg
 
Pulling off the fan, looks like some Motorola chip. I also see a SN68000 in the same place as the link shows, so that confirms it. Thanks for the help
 

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Thanks for the help guys. Decided to pull the 68000 out and run it with no accelerator for the time being until I can work out a few issues with it. Floppy has no life and the keyboard has odd behavior, looks like there's been some work on it as well, the connector isn't keyed and there's an extra ground lead running off of it
 
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Update on the odd behavior, floppy motor sounds like it wants to spin but doesn't, power light doesn't come on, neither does drive activity light. Seems that the keyboard is fine, as capslock comes on and doesn't blink.
 
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