[rescue] Vaxen?

[Dave McGuire]

On April 27, Brian Hechinger wrote:
> >   I have a SCSI ramdisk sitting around somewhere.  It's got a 68020
> > and a bunch of 30-pin SIMM sockets on it.  I think it goes up to 64MB
> > or so.
> 
> how hard would it be to build one of these that can go a little higher?  this
> would be awesome for some of my older more memory limited machines.  add this
> as a page/swap device.  with the cost of PC100 ram it would be fairly stinking
> cheap to fill with space.
> 
> thoughts?

  It would definitely be a project...but it wouldn't be impossible.
The big deal is that 168 pins is a *lot* of tightly-packed pins to
route on a PCB.  I would love to do something like this, perhaps to
sell commercially.

         -Dave

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Dave McGuire                                 "Mmmm.  Big."
St. Petersburg, FL                                -Den