5 Feb
2014
5 Feb
'14
4:50 a.m.
On 2014-02-04 20:39, David Gesswein wrote:
1) Gold edge fingers increase the board cost. Would people prefer a
cheaper
board with .1 headers like my wirewrap board that will need non
standard
cables or proper edge connectors for the drive emulation?
I think the proper edge connectors would be worth paying more for, for
certain values of "more".
2) It might be possible to make the board emulate two drives. The
system would have to be setup to use daisy-chained control cable
since the
board will only have one control connector and two data connectors.
The second
data cable would have to be .1 header. Is this enough interest to
people
to be worth trying to do?
Marginally useful for an RQDX3 type of setup, but probably not worth
much
extra cost... I can't imagine too many uses for (for instance) multiple
RD-54's, given the use cases of your typical retrocomputing
enthusiasts,
but I could (of course) be wrong.
Congrats on your progress! Your design will help many, I'm sure.
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