another ebay weirdness

[quapla at xs4all.nl]

> On 5/26/05, quapla at xs4all.nl <quapla at xs4all.nl> wrote:
>>
>> Not at all, but asking $49 is a bit well, excessive imho.. ;)
>
> No doubt... for $49, I could probably make a stack of them.  :-)
>
> Since the boring version was, ISTR, $18, q. 100, for no silkscreen,
> simple outline, I wouldn't expect a fancy version to be $31 more.  I
> would do one thing, though, that I wish my predecessors had done - add
> one gold-plated edge finger, and some through-holes above the card
> edge so it would be trivial to cut and jump the card for Unibus or
> Qbus.  I never have enough Qbus grant cards.  For Unibuses, one

That would have been an elegant solution.

> routinely starts out with 8 or 9 grant cards in a DD11-DK and removes
> them as needed to add options.  For Qbuses, one frequently has to
> shift cards up, down, left, or right, when reconfiguring.  I know that
> back in the day, we routinely had less than one Qbus grant card per
> machine (i.e., 3 cards, 5 machines or some such), a very different
> ratio than with our Unibus boxes.  Of course, one _needs_ a slab full
> of grant cards in a Unibus and one only needs to close up gaps in the
> bus for Qbus, but this is about what is convenient, not what is
> minimally necessary.

Well, speaking of grant cards, I've about 60 of the Unibus knucle
busters and 15 wide ones. Qbus ones I have only 3, but that's enough
for me.

> -ethan
>
> P.S. - for folks new to this thread, I own the rights to that card
> (bought with the rest of the IP in 1994), a product of a former
> employer.

Ever considered to issue some new ones? ;) Maybe with a slogan of some
kind?

Ed