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<cbmuser>
cr1901_modern: VAX backend conversion has been completed
* cr1901_modern
brings out party hats, streamers, and blowers
<andlabs>
I still need to get a DEC keyboard and a scsi2sd
<andlabs>
oh and a monitor adapter
<andlabs>
I'm still frustrated that the newest versions of scsi2sd are no longer open hardware
<Foone>
you just need a whole everything and it'll be complete!
<andlabs>
=P
<andlabs>
I have just the computer now
<andlabs>
I'll also need the scsi2sd for the x68000
<andlabs>
and possibly for my performa 600
<Foone>
I agree on the SCSI2SD not being open, but I kinda understand why. I was at a VCF and one of the guys who made it was there, and we were having trouble with one. He looked at it and was like "oh. I didn't make that one... it's a clone"
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<Foone>
and apparently that's a very common situation: people asking him for support for a scsi2sd that's not working and it's not working because someone cloned it based on the open source design but cheaped out on components
<Foone>
it sounds like there's a lot of SCSI2SD clones out there that will work on "most adapters", because they're in spec enough that if you plug them into a very compatible adapter they'll work fine, but won't work on a lot of the odder adapters
<Foone>
and I think at the time my roommate was trying to use it on a minivax of some sort? which is apparently far enough outside of the "normal" SCSI to not work with the clones
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<Sarayan>
A little like us being asked to support all the butchered variants of mame
<Foone>
exactly. the kind of shit that Mozilla was so annoyed with that resulted in IceWeasel existing
<andlabs>
I mean I guess that's fair
<andlabs>
it'd be nice if people who make, for instance, SD2IDEs would credit the original SD2IDE project more often
<andlabs>
er
<andlabs>
SD2IEC
<andlabs>
and the scsi2sd guy does make it clear he's not getting credit in any of these clones
<andlabs>
shrug
<andlabs>
I'm just not a fan of anything that used to be open source but isn't anymore
<andlabs>
even if in this case the firmware and drivers is still oepn source for some reason