[pups] roll-your-own-unibus boards?

[Johnny Billquist]

On Mon, 19 Jan 2004, Brad Parker wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I asked this on the classic computer list and I thought I'd ask here
> also...
>
> Does anyone have any thoughts on how hard it would be to make a unibus
> board which is an IDE controller?

Probably not hard at all, from a hardware point of view. The Unibus is
well documented, and as you noted, slow.

The only possible gotcha is that you better make sure you give enough
power for the signals. A unibus can be several meters long.

	Johnny

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