At 02:26 PM 12/13/2004 -0800, Guy Sotomayor wrote:
> > 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
Nice looking board Guy!
You might note to those who are interested that they will require a
single width extender card to use the KM11...
--tom
Received on Tue Dec 14 2004 - 07:51:19 GMT