26 Feb
2013
26 Feb
'13
3:03 p.m.
I should point out that (at least from looking at a couple of the photos) you're not
using Unibus transceivers which are standard on Omnibus devices. It'll probably work
OK on a lightly loaded system but a PDP-8/e with a double backplane with lots of boards
may have issues.
TTFN - Guy
On Feb 26, 2013, at 3:34 PM, Philipp Hachtmann wrote:
Am 26.02.2013 19:34, schrieb Adrian Stoness:
how much?????????
Depends on interest/lot
size. After 3 hours now the price is at approx. EUR 250/piece without VAT - falling with
growing number of boards.
But it should still become cheaper....
On Tue, Feb 26, 2013 at 12:31 PM, Philipp Hachtmann<hachti at hachti.de>wrote:
> Hi folks,
>
> I'd like to introduce my newly designed Omnibus-USB interface.
> I designed a quite well working prototype of something that looks like a
> KL8E for the PDP8 and like a serial port on the PC - but is none of both :-)
>
> It ist not meant as a console terminal replacement (which it could be used
> as) but as an alternative IO device used to dump (archive!) and restore
> mass storage media.
> To the people who don't know the problems of having MASSES of disks and
> tapes to dump: Please don't flame.
>
> Pictures and some more information can be found on my website:
>
http://pdp8.hachti.de?gallery/**omnibus_usb<http://pdp8.hachti.de?galler…
>
> My intention is to design an improved (probably full height) version and
> do a little production run. As I'm currently out of work, selling those
> boards could help a bit. I can do it only if I get enough preorders. So I
> ask everybody with serious interest to tell me how many boards he wants and
> how much he could spend. Based on that feedback I'll decide if I can do it
> and fix a price. It won't be cheap - but very helpful and cool!
>
> I'd really like to make some more. It would be great if there's enough
> interest to do it.
>
> If you have any suggestions, let me know!
>
>
> Kind regards,
>
> Philipp :-)
>
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