14 Mar
2007
14 Mar
'07
8:47 p.m.
On 3/14/07, Vincent Slyngstad <vrs at msn.com> wrote:
http://www.jkearney.com/sbc6120/
Looking at an
IOB6120, that's clearly no stretch (and the VHDL is
already in there for a VT52 w/PS/2 and VGA ;-)
Cool! I should go look at that :). Well, there's 16Mbit of flash and 256Mbit of SDRAM
in mine.
Hmm... seems like enough to load several implementations at once (like
multiple Wyse or multiple VT100-family terminals) - just build in some
way to switch models...
Well, I think I paid about $200 for mine, but OTOH, it
seems like it
would pretty much do the job, right out of the box. (Except for the
"small matter" of programming.)
Programming doesn't cost the second user anything ;-)
Hmm... $200 for an assembled board with those characteristics doesn't
sound _too_ bad, but there's still the matter of buffers/drivers for
off-board I/O with TTL-ish devices, plus connector cost - I can see it
running closer to $220-$250 for something that's ready to program and
use. That might be in the acceptable range for a number of folks.
-ethan