I happen to have a full set of boards for the VAXlab kit. I actually have 
some spares as well. I have a couple bits of documentation for them, 
also. If someone close to the 'burgh wants to pick them up, i'd be glad 
to give a set of boards to someone who will write support for them. 
the only catch is you have to write support for them then!
:)

isildur

On Fri, 25 Oct 2002, Brian Chase wrote:

> On Fri, 25 Oct 2002, Nigel Johnson wrote:
> 
> > btw, I am happily chugging along on with NetBSD on my MicroVax IIs.  One of
> > them has a Data Translation DT2765 millivolt isolated a/d that I am dying
> > to use to measure dome kind of power line stuff, but anybody who suggests
> > an experiment also has to come up with a driver!
> 
> Oooh.  One project I always thought would be interesting is using A/D
> and D/A Qbus modules to build a sound card for a VAX.  I doubt a
> MicroVAX-II would have the VUPs to decode mp3s on the fly, but I'd
> imagine it'd be fine for low-fidelity uncompressed audio.  I'm sure some
> of the newer VAX 4000 series would be well suited for the task.
> 
> The major obstacle being the scarcity of such modules.  I only know of
> their existence from Megan Gentry's _Field Guide to Qbus and Unibus
> Modules_; I've never seen them "in the wild."
> 
> -brian.
> 
>