Create a VAX CPU with FPGA?

[Wai-Sun Chia]

On Thu, 03 Mar 2005 23:47:06 -0500, Curt @ Atari Museum
<curt at atarimuseum.com> wrote:
> I personally would rather see some more hobbyist work on PCI Qbus and/or
> Unibus cards, the current commercial ones run $2500-$3000 and it would
> be GREAT to run SimH and have access to all the drives, tape systems and
> so forth directly with something more like $250-$500 vs the $2500-$3000
> cards.

I don't know about other listmembers, but I'd hazard a guess to say
that we have more CPUs (either Qbus or Unibus) than peripherals. Like
for myself, I don't even have a single bootable device for my 8/M,
8/E, and my Unibus 11s (at least Qbus I have MFMs and DSSIs).

So I think it'd be a boon to the collecting community in general to
work on Qbus and Unibus interfaces to modern storage devices, either
SCSI (which is abundantly and cheaply found) or IDE (means as a bonus
we can use CF cards too).

p.s. 9000, I'm watching your Qbus-SCSI project very closely..
p.p.s. Any chance of doing a Unibus one? please.... :-)


Just my RM0.02.
/wai-sun