> I've been working on creating a clone of DEC's maintenance panel
> (KM11)
> for some time now. I intended it to be used as my "hello world" board
> to get familiar with EagleCAD and the board fab process.
>
> On Friday my first boards arrived from the fab house. I spent this
> weekend building up 2 boards and both worked perfectly the first time.
> It was so cool to be able to single step the microcode in an 11/40!
>
> It's up on my web site
> (http://www.shiresoft.com/pdp-11/boards/index.html) for those that
> want
> to see what it looks like. Sometime this week I'll take a picture of
> the 11/40 with 2 KM11's hanging out of it!
>
> My first batch of boards/parts has already been spoken for. But for
> any
> who are interested, I'll place another order for parts/boards for
> delivery sometime in January.
>
> Each board will come with complete schematics, parts list and assembly
> instructions. I will also have collected drawings for the overlays
> and
> instructions on use for the various processors (11/20, 11/05, 11/40,
> 11/45 and 11/70).
>
> I'm pricing as follows:
> "Bare" Board $75
> "kit" (includes all the parts) $125
> assembled and tested $250 (I really don't want to)
>
OK, I just got a couple of board quotes with larger quantities. If I
can get an order of ~50 boards, I can drop the prices by $40! So the
pricing would be:
"Bare" Board $35
"kit" (includes all the parts) $85
assembled and tested $250 (I still don't want to)
If I can get a preliminary count of folks who want one (or two or ...) I
can get the boards and parts ordered. I'd like to place the orders
during the first week of January.
--
TTFN - Guy
Received on Mon Dec 13 2004 - 16:26:35 GMT