another ebay weirdness

On 5/26/05, quapla at xs4all.nl <quapla at xs4all.nl> wrote: No doubt... for $49, I could probably make a stack of them. :-) Since the boring version was, ISTR, $18, q. 100, for no silkscreen, simple outline, I wouldn't expect a fancy version to be $31 more. I would do one thing, though, that I wish my predecessors had done - add one gold-plated edge finger, and some through-holes above the card edge so it would be trivial to cut and jump the card for Unibus or Qbus. I never have enough Qbus grant cards. For Unibuses, one routinely starts out with 8 or 9 grant cards in a DD11-DK and removes them as needed to add options. For Qbuses, one frequently has to shift cards up, down, left, or right, when reconfiguring. I know that back in the day, we routinely had less than one Qbus grant card per machine (i.e., 3 cards, 5 machines or some such), a very different ratio than with our Unibus boxes. Of course, one _needs_ a slab full of grant cards in a Unibus and one only needs to close up gaps in the bus for Qbus, but this is about what is convenient, not what is minimally necessary. -ethan P.S. - for folks new to this thread, I own the rights to that card (bought with the rest of the IP in 1994), a product of a former employer.