Hi All!
Wow! I am really behind again!
The good
news is a
bunch of PCBs have arrived. First there are several mini-PCBs
available I
now have on hand.
1. ECB to
Z80
socket shim board
2. Juha
SD for
SBC board
3. PPIDE
board
to connect IDE drives or CF to the SBC parallel expansion port direct
4.
AT2XTKBD
board used to connect an AT or PS/2 keyboard to an XT style computer
These PCBs
are much
smaller than the Eurocard boards and are really meant to augment
existing
systems. Probably they could be used generally or by themselves but
most
builders will use them to add to their already working SBCs. To keep
things simple, all the miniboards are $5 plus shipping each. Assuming
I
can use standard mailing envelopes and just tape the boards to a piece
of
cardboard shipping will be $1 in the US and $3 elsewhere.
Hopefully
this is not
too confusing as I’ve tried to keep the pricing model simple but these
boards are less expensive than the regular Eurocard or S-100 boards.
If any
builders are
willing to do some demonstrations, take photos of them in working
systems, add
a webpage description on the N8VEM wiki etc, I would be glad to send a
couple
of each board out as “freebies”. I much appreciate any and
all help in the development of these boards. They will be very helpful
and useful to new builders!
Thanks and have a nice day!
Andrew Lynch