22 Nov
2006
22 Nov
'06
2:40 a.m.
Chris M wrote:
Seems unlikely that the whole machine would fail catastrophically in a
way that would leave you a case to mount the motherboard in.
I'd be inclined to just repair the old machine. If there was a bit that
I couldn't get, I'd make a replacement. If the replacement turned out
to need to be an FPGA and some appropriate interface, so be it.
Gordon
But I would
not want to replace the CPU boards in
the PDP8/e on my desk
with a board containing an FPGA + level shifters.
Just as I'd not want to
put a PC motherboard running an emulator inside that
case.
What if the very last thingamabob thingee there went
kaput? Huh! I mean there are no more left on planet
earth. Would you then do the above there with the
whatever you got thing there?? Hmm?