MITS 2SIO serial chip?

From: Richard Erlacher <edick_at_idcomm.com>
Date: Tue Dec 18 00:10:58 2001

OOOH! I heard that. I recently priced the hardware needed to house a pretty
large FPGA in a BGA on a wirewrap board and found the cost ends up over $1k for
the entire assembly. What's more, the attachment of the socket is quite
permanent, so if you don't like the adapter, too bad.

Dick

----- Original Message -----
From: "Ben Franchuk" <bfranchuk_at_jetnet.ab.ca>
To: <classiccmp_at_classiccmp.org>
Sent: Monday, December 17, 2001 4:55 AM
Subject: Re: MITS 2SIO serial chip?


> ajp166 wrote:
> > Use a bigger FPGA... Thats why hammers come from small 4oz all
> > the way to to 10 pounds!
>
> I refuse to use a socket that is more than $10. I like small hammers
> - less problems when you hit your thumb.

The PLCC-84 sockets still cost under $2. I just got a couple last week.

<snip>
Yeah! Like less blood.
Received on Tue Dec 18 2001 - 00:10:58 GMT