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Re: QVSS wscons driver
On 01/05/2015 12:49 AM, Cory Smelosky wrote:
>>> What's the fault? Controller on 'em? Ones I had didn't respond at
>>> all...never got to checking out why.
>>
>> Shattered plastic in many cases.
>
> Ahhh. Want the plastic from my busted ones?
Oh, maybe. Perhaps we can swap enough parts to make ourselves a few
more working ones.
>>> Yow. How could they have shipped with a buggy Qbus interface?!
>>
>> Bugs happen, man.
>
> Yeah...but the Qbus is a bit essential to the board doing...anything. ;)
>
> Or was it just a bug that'd only appear in some
> not-everywhere-but-common configs?
I don't recall the specifics, but I think it worked with all or most
DEC boards, but many non-DEC boards didn't work. Conspiracy theories
ran rampant, of course.
-Dave
--
Dave McGuire, AK4HZ/3
New Kensington, PA
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