25 Jan
2007
25 Jan
'07
12:06 a.m.
I have thousands of DEC boards, including DZ11's, here if any one needs
them for replacements or parts.
Thanks, Paul Anderson
In article <e1d20d630701241825v79ce0844h46abf02c3c40596 at mail.gmail.com>,
"William Donzelli" <wdonzelli at
gmail.com> writes:
Maintaining old DEC stuff would indeed be a
niche, so I can understand
that. However, someof the things I said still apply. For example, when
a DZ11 goes bad, do you actually fix the board (I assume, of course,
that you use DZ11s)?. It does not really make sense to, from a
business perspective, since good ones are common as dirt and quite
available.
Just don't scrap the DZ11s, make them available to people who want to
scrounge bus transceiver chips from them.
Bus transceiver chips for Q-bus and Unibus are *not* common as dirt
and more than a few of us have scratched our heads on how to create
new compatible circuits. Meanwhile, the scroungers taught me that
it might be easier to scrounge the bus transceiver chips off of dead
or readily available boards.
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