PDP8 Omnibus to USB interface

Hi folks, I'd like to introduce my newly designed Omnibus-USB interface. I designed a quite well working prototype of something that looks like a KL8E for the PDP8 and like a serial port on the PC - but is none of both :-) It ist not meant as a console terminal replacement (which it could be used as) but as an alternative IO device used to dump (archive!) and restore mass storage media. To the people who don't know the problems of having MASSES of disks and tapes to dump: Please don't flame. Pictures and some more information can be found on my website: http://pdp8.hachti.de?gallery/omnibus_usb My intention is to design an improved (probably full height) version and do a little production run. As I'm currently out of work, selling those boards could help a bit. I can do it only if I get enough preorders. So I ask everybody with serious interest to tell me how many boards he wants and how much he could spend. Based on that feedback I'll decide if I can do it and fix a price. It won't be cheap - but very helpful and cool! I'd really like to make some more. It would be great if there's enough interest to do it. If you have any suggestions, let me know! Kind regards, Philipp :-) -- Dipl.-Inf. (FH) Philipp Hachtmann Buchdruck, Bleisatz, Spezialit?ten Alemannstr. 21, D-30165 Hannover Tel. 0511/3522222, Mobil 0171/2632239 Fax. 0511/3500439 hachti at hachti.de www.tiegeldruck.de UStdID DE 202668329