16 Oct
2012
16 Oct
'12
11:41 a.m.
Is there really enough interest in such a thing to
make boards?
It is simply to easy to buy qbus-scsi or unibus-scsi
boards on ebay.
You just have to wait for it.
You also have to be willing to use ebay. Which not everyone is.
And if somebody/anybody picks it up again, it
won't be cheaper then
the $200 on ebay, so why?
(a) I'd be willing to buy from a list regular long before I'd be
willing to find someone to proxy for me on ebay. (Using ebay directly
is just not happening for me. Their terms of service are ludicrous, or
at least were last I looked, and the only interface they provide is a
Web one; either of those would keep me away.)
(b) I'd be significantly more confident the result would actually work.
(c) I'd be supporting someone in the hobby rather than (likely) a
random dealer/scrapper.
Of course, these are all really just facets of a single thing I haven't
come up with a good word for.
Actually, the only reason I could think is, that we
have less and
less working 50 pin scsi drives, so "if" I would do it again, it
would be sd-flash.
I'd rather real disks; if you really don't want to do SCSI (which would
be my own preference - I've got lots of SCA and HD68 and even some
50pin, and plenty of passive adapters), I'd suggest SATA. But I
recognize that that's armchair quarterbacking.
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