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The original Apple LaserWriter had a 68000 chip that was more powerful than the Mac it was attached to. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motorola_68000_series#Mai

• TMWNN 2y ago
  The Commodore 1541 and related drives use the same 6502 CPU as the C64, VIC-20, and other computers they connect to. It is possible to, for example, run a disk duplicator program on a Commodore computer connected to two drives, which executes code on both drives so that they can be disconnected from the computer but continue to copy disks from one to another.
  • rbanffy 2y ago
    We are kind of getting back there - a modern server (and mainframes before them) has a bunch of slave processors for all kinds of specialized work, not only GPUs, but DPUs, crypto acceleration, and so on. The C64 went a bit further than that, in something that reminisces of a Plan 9 network of a workstation and one or more storage servers (the drives).