Re: Unibus disk controller with modern storage

2016-10-20 Thread David Bridgham
On 10/19/2016 06:48 PM, shad wrote: > > One of my retrocomputing dream is to design an Unibus universal board, > probably based on FPGA because of precise timing requirements, > to emulate one or more disk/tape interfaces, and possibly something more. > The real storage could be based on SD

Re: Unibus disk controller with modern storage

2016-10-20 Thread Eric Smith
On Wed, Oct 19, 2016 at 4:48 PM, shad wrote: > The board itself wouldn't be cheap at all, because PCB would be big, > True. From a Chinese vendor such as PCBway, a DEC quad size double-sided PCB without ENIG (immersion) gold surface finish but without hard-gold edge

Re: Unibus disk controller with modern storage

2016-10-20 Thread Fritz Mueller
On Oct 19, 2016 6:48 PM, "shad" wrote Hello, I read several posts about Unibus disk interfaces and emulation. One of my retrocomputing dream is to design an Unibus universal board, probably based on FPGA because of precise timing requirements, to emulate one or more

Re: Unibus disk controller with modern storage

2016-10-20 Thread Paul Koning
> On Oct 19, 2016, at 6:48 PM, shad wrote: > > Hello, > I read several posts about Unibus disk interfaces and emulation. > One of my retrocomputing dream is to design an Unibus universal board, > probably based on FPGA because of precise timing requirements, > to emulate

Re: Unibus disk controller with modern storage

2016-10-19 Thread william degnan
> > >> From what I understand, there could be a great demand of a such >> interface here around? >> > > Been thinking about this for more than 10 years :-( > > Isn't Noel working on something related? > > Btw, MSCP isn't really as complex as its reputation... While I'm not an > expert, the hard

Re: Unibus disk controller with modern storage

2016-10-19 Thread Toby Thain
On 2016-10-19 6:48 PM, shad wrote: Hello, I read several posts about Unibus disk interfaces and emulation. One of my retrocomputing dream is to design an Unibus universal board, probably based on FPGA because of precise timing requirements, to emulate one or more disk/tape interfaces, and

Re: Unibus disk controller with modern storage

2016-10-19 Thread william degnan
OH yah Bill Degnan twitter: billdeg vintagecomputer.net On Oct 19, 2016 6:48 PM, "shad" wrote: > Hello, > I read several posts about Unibus disk interfaces and emulation. > One of my retrocomputing dream is to design an Unibus universal board, > probably based on FPGA

Unibus disk controller with modern storage

2016-10-19 Thread shadoooo
Hello, I read several posts about Unibus disk interfaces and emulation. One of my retrocomputing dream is to design an Unibus universal board, probably based on FPGA because of precise timing requirements, to emulate one or more disk/tape interfaces, and possibly something more. The real storage