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From: bqt@update.uu.se (Johnny Billquist)
Subject: [pups] roll-your-own-unibus boards?
Date: Tue, 20 Jan 2004 01:35:33 +0100 (CET)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.58.0401200133570.5507@Tempo.Update.UU.SE> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200401192338.i0JNcb121320@mwave.heeltoe.com>

On Mon, 19 Jan 2004, Brad Parker wrote:

> 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?

Probably not hard at all, from a hardware point of view. The Unibus is
well documented, and as you noted, slow.

The only possible gotcha is that you better make sure you give enough
power for the signals. A unibus can be several meters long.

	Johnny

Johnny Billquist                  || "I'm on a bus
                                  ||  on a psychedelic trip
email: bqt at update.uu.se           ||  Reading murder books
pdp is alive!                     ||  tryin' to stay hip" - B. Idol


  reply	other threads:[~2004-01-20  0:35 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-01-19 23:38 Brad Parker
2004-01-20  0:35 ` Johnny Billquist [this message]
2004-01-20  6:39 ` Michael Davidson
2004-01-20  7:03   ` Ian King
2004-01-20 13:58   ` David Evans
2004-01-20  9:22 ` Jochen Kunz
2004-01-21 16:50   ` Brad Parker
     [not found] <jkunz@unixag-kl.fh-kl.de>
2003-05-07 21:16 ` [pups] Tektronix 8560 with PDP-11/23 CPU running TNIX (UINX) Jochen Kunz
2003-05-07 21:32   ` Gregg C Levine
2003-05-08 21:03   ` David W. Talmage
2003-05-09  6:52     ` Jochen Kunz

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