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Wow: dual Cosmo. So dual I/O OR high bit rate SC up/down. Paired memory makes me thing the latter despite a HB serial port for external control.
That was nice at one point. Then again you could probably walk across the room with a paper note before the transmission completed. Lol.

Best guess is some sort of office phone server.

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Yeh fax board from a color copier

Kool none the less. That wasn’t a cheap chip on its own. Seeing two on any board was limited to extremely high end equipment. Oni, Xerox, Apple, Cisco...!

Think of it like adding TWO Xeon chips to a board in 1999. The chip is nothing special other than being best of the line from the company, hand selected and hand tested. The majority were stamped as Centaur chips. They’re FP ASICs with added exponent coding allowing on the fly in step decoupling.
The Fastback Vx modem used a pair as well. Remaining the grail of dial up modems to this day.
More nostalgia on my part. Doesn’t change any real value.

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