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Hi folks, looking at the top of a Motorola 68060 - how do you identify the revision number of the chip?

They are all re-printed now. So whatever is printed on them is meaningless unless you have a known genuine one ?

Steve wrote: 23 Jun 2022 16:17 https://exxosforum.co.uk/atari/last/CT60/index.htm

Yeah but ironically I deleted those pages off the old server as its not valid anymore because all the chips are reprinted these days. So if you go on those figures, you may think you have a REV6, but you probably don't.

By documenting fakes, and showing how to better identify real 68060's from their external markings we inadvertently showed the people doing the fakes how to do a better job?

Stick with a seller who has the best possible reputation (again, no guarantees), but one such seller is here--so far, a number of Amiga users have bought genuine rev. 6 CPUs from him:

https://www.ebay.com/itm/155055216459?e ... SwIgNXlMeJ

alexh wrote: 23 Jun 2022 17:32 By documenting fakes, and showing how to better identify real 68060's from their external markings we inadvertently showed the people doing the fakes how to do a better job?

Exactly this. Its unfortunate but there is no way to know until they show up.