Few time after the Falcon 030, Atari decided to launch its successor. They worked then on the Falcon030 MicroBox.
Basically, it is a Falcon030 in a new case with a full 32bit data bus. (Remember that the Falcon030 has only a 16bit data bus). An other version was planned with a bigger case and three expansion slots.
The MicroBoxes CPU were supposed to be upgradable to a 68040.
It was never released (How typical!). Only few prototypes were produced, then abandoned when Atari decided to launch the Jaguar game system.
Atari worked for a while on a Falcon040 and one prototype was almost finished, but we can consider the MicroBox as the last attempt from Atari in the world of Computing.
You can find a photo of the motherboard at cyberroach.com.
NAME
FALCON 030 MicroBox
MANUFACTURER
Atari
TYPE
Professional Computer
ORIGIN
U.S.A.
YEAR
1993
KEYBOARD
Full-stroke keyboard with numeric and editing keypads
CPU
Motorola MC68030 + Motorola DSP 56001
SPEED
16 MHz (68030) / 32 MHz (56001)
CO-PROCESSOR
optional FPU (Motorola 68882)
RAM
4 MB (up to 14 MB)
TEXT MODES
40 or 80 chars. x 25 lines (bitmapped graphics)
GRAPHIC MODES
ST Modes, TT Modes, VGA (640 x 480), True Color
COLORS
Two modes : 16 bit with True color mode or 262144 with paletted mode