Reading an MFM hard drive with a floppy disc analyser

[Philip Pemberton]

Philip Pemberton wrote:
> The problem with PCI is licensing -- you need a PCI Vendor ID, which you 
> get by joining PCI-SIG, signing the patent licenses and so forth. The 
> damage? £4k per year last time I checked.

OK, I really should check my facts before I open my big trap.

PCI-SIG won't issue a Vendor ID unless you're a member. That costs $3000 per year.

> USB is open-licensed -- AIUI, it's a case of "do what you like as long 
> as you buy a Vendor ID and don't use the USB logo". The VIDs were $2000 
> last time I checked, but a lot of IC manufacturers will sub-licence 
> individual PIDs in their VID block to their customers.

Might as well correct this too.. $2000 for either a Vendor ID on its own (the 
$2k is an "administration fee"), or a VID and a two-year Trademark License. No 
idea if the VID lapses when the trademark license expires, the website isn't 
exactly clear on that.

But anyway, this sort of thing is OT for classiccmp...

-- 
Phil.
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