16 May
2004
16 May
'04
3:57 a.m.
On Sun, 16 May 2004, Tony Duell wrote:
Hmmm.. Certainly the heads can be replaced at home,
but that assumes you
have the right replacements. I think making heads is beyond a home
workshop, but I would love to be proved wrong (and probably will be
sometime -- _never_ underestimate what a hacker can do if he tries...)
Tony,
wouldn't one need a (somewhat :) clean room for such
stuff, and (for heads) optical gear and all that??
Anybody who believes that designs will port to a new
FPGA without
problems has almost certainly never tried to do this. I speak from bitter
experience...
I still believe (as I just explained in detail to another list
member ;-) that such a QUnibus board design should be based on
a micro only- the "classic" design, where, if we really have
to (read: if the micro is no longer available..) can quickly
redesign it with another micro. I'd base it on an Intel
chip, *simply because* of their availability by scavenging
old PC's.
--fred
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