Interest in a PDP-8/e/a/f/m 32K RAM kit?

On Mar 19, 2014 5:33 AM, "Philipp Hachtmann" <hachti at hachti.de> wrote: make new Omnibus stuff today. What is the reason for discouraging them? It's not a matter of trying to discourage anyone from making, selling, or buying such things. It's a matter of full disclosure. Suppose you bought a "SOHO" Ethernet switch and it didn't work for you, because the manufacturer knowingly made it in such a way that it didn't meet the Ethernet specifications and couldn't work with cables longer than 25m. They didn't bother to document that limitation bacause it is obvious that almost no one needs Ethernet cables longer than 25m at home, so they conidered it totally unimportant that it didn't meet the specifications. Would you say that it was OK for them to do that? Would you criticize a third party who tried to publicize the problem, because that person was trying to "discourage" the vendor? Now consider the same question if the vendor explicitly claimed that it did meet the specification, and put on their web site a well-intentioned but flawed analysis of that claim. Would you complain about someone that pointed out the flaw in the analysis? As I've said, I'm delighted to see people making new products for use Omnibus, and I'll buy some myself, but I think it is entirely appropriate to point out that that they almost certainly don't meet the bus specs, even though that probably will affect only a small fraction of users.