brew-your-own-unibus boards?

From: Brian Chase <vaxzilla_at_jarai.org>
Date: Mon Jan 19 23:19:19 2004

On Tue, 20 Jan 2004, Ethan Dicks wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 19, 2004 at 10:26:32PM -0500, Christian Fandt wrote:

> > > And, if I did manage to create a realiable IDE interface, would
> > > anyone else want one?
> >
> > Yes!
>
> And me!

You know what would be more useful, IMHO, a Qbus/Unibus USB adapter.
This would allow one to add a greater variety of I/O options beyond
standard disk storage, like memory card readers, digital cameras, mice,
keyboards, audio, network adapters, printers, scanners, etc.

You could also hang multiple devices from a single board with the aid
of a USB hub. You'd still have to write drivers for all this stuff,
but in the case of NetBSD, this shouldn't be a problem once a driver
for the custom USB board is built.

-brian.
Received on Mon Jan 19 2004 - 23:19:19 GMT