From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: brad@heeltoe.com (Brad Parker) Date: Mon, 19 Jan 2004 18:38:37 -0500 Subject: [pups] roll-your-own-unibus boards? Message-ID: <200401192338.i0JNcb121320@mwave.heeltoe.com> Hi, I asked this on the classic computer list and I thought I'd ask here also... Does anyone have any thoughts on how hard it would be to make a unibus board which is an IDE controller? I have 4-6 layer boards fabbed regularly and use modern CPLD's & VHDL on a regular basis, so the building part looks easy. I've never looked at unibus controlleqr schematic, but plan to. I'm assuming much of the old ttl can be sucked into something like a Xilinx coolrunner CPLD... I also assume it's reasonably straightforward TTL, and at (by today's standards) slow speed... true? Any hints, or gotcha's as far as fabrication or interface? Has anyone done this (in the modern day, that is :-) My plan would be to build a 4 layer board of suitable thickness with gold fingers, using an existing board for reference (any physical size specs I could read?) I'm well aware of the foolishness of this on one level, but there's a side of me that really enjoys this sort of thing... perhaps medication would help :-) -brad