5 Jul
1999
5 Jul
'99
11:51 a.m.
It's true there are lots of VME boards around.
There just aren't many
cheap ones.
Actually, VME boards are plentiful and cheap. I routinely see tham at
hamfests for a dollar or two a piece. They can also be taken out of older
Suns (the -3s and early -4s), as many of those machines are hitting the
junkyards now. They tend to have non-Sun interface boards (SCSI, tape,
etc..) hidden "inside" 9U to 6U board convertors.
William Donzelli
aw288(a)osfn.org