[rescue] Vaxen?

[Francisco Javier Mesa-Martinez]

On Mon, 29 Apr 2002, Dave McGuire wrote:

> On April 29, Brian Hechinger wrote:
> > > If anyone is _serious_ about this, I do know of an extremely talented
> > > designer that could probably whip this out in his sleep.  Cost for board
> > > would probably be in the neighborhood of $50/ea for parts/pcb, and 1-2
> > > hours of assembly time for someone used to soldering surface mount parts
> > > with 0.5mm pin spacing.  Sometimes mild nearsightedness isn't so bad.  :)
> > 
> > ok, i doubt i have the skill to solder something like that.  i do NOT have
> > fine motor control.  so what do you estimate the cost of assembly would be?
> > so far $50 sounds like a good deal.  i'd be willing to pay that.
> 
>   I can solder them.
> 
>       -Dave
> 

Eerrr, if anyone knows how to get a Virtex and a PCB board (with all those
traces, since you guys are going to put a bunch of simms in that thing..)
for $50.00, please let me know.... 

Maybe I have spent way too much time in the hardware side of things, but
it seems that you people have waaaaay to much free time (and are a bit
overoptimistic). For something as useless as a solid state disk, with
memory being so cheap, you might as well just get your system beefed up
with real RAM and just define a RAM disk. Or maybe just get an old SPARC
or feecee with a SCSI port and interface it with the SCSI bus of the
main system, and just have part of the old system's memory act as a
temporary storage for the main system. This would be a cheaper
software-only solution, that might be actually doable.

Just my 2 cents, I spent another allnighter debugging VHDL code, and I
realized by reading this thread how sick some of you are! :-)