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<cr1901_modern> Foone: Also, I think I found it: https://twitter.com/cr1901/status/1339011932108578817
<cr1901_modern> "Build-your-own SSD on the ISA bus" magazine article
<cr1901_modern> The PDF matches my recollection: early 90's from a electronics hobbyist magazine
<Foone> very cool. definitely a different design, but surprisingly simple
<cr1901_modern> Yea, I like how no-frills it is. Being a magazine project, I imagine the SSD you have was more battle-tested :)
<cr1901_modern> Since it was sold as a product
<Foone> hopefully! but MemTech was making bubble memory boards shortly before this, so who knows what they knew about flash?
<cr1901_modern> Were their bubble memory boards, well... good?
<cr1901_modern> (not like I imagine I could do a bubble memory controller well)
<Foone> unknown. haven't tried 'em yet
<cr1901_modern> Eric Smith/Brouhaha on hellsite did some bubble memory experiments a while back, but Idk how they panned out
<Foone> I do have some ISA bubble memory cards, and I think they're memtech. I haven't tried 'em yet, though
<cr1901_modern> I need new ISA cards
<Foone> as in more of them? or newly made ones?
<cr1901_modern> Both, really. I haven't bought any in a while b/c funds and... it took me a LONG while to get back into vintage PCs after 2019.
<cr1901_modern> And I'd like to at some point make my own for fun. Keep saying I'll do it and never do it
<cr1901_modern> My collection that's not in use right now is *checks* mostly modems, hard disk controllers
<cr1901_modern> But there's bubble memory cards, prototype boards, DAQ units, PCFX on an ISA card
<cr1901_modern> lots of cool stuff :D
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<Foone> DAQ units?
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<cr1901_modern> Foone: Data AcQuisition units
<cr1901_modern> basically, shorthand for "collecting data via sensors and turning it into a format to be consumed over ISA bus"
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<Foone> ahh, I see. I have a couple of those sorts of things. like one from some kind of DNA-scanning machine
<Foone> just didn't recognize the acronym
<cr1901_modern> >like one from some kind of DNA-scanning machine
<cr1901_modern> Oooh that sounds interesting :o
<cr1901_modern> Did one of Your Threads on that yet?