koopman@a.gp.cs.cmu.edu (Philip Koopman) (02/06/90)
According to a well-informed source within Harris, the contest entry kits have been sent to a mailing house, and are in the mail even as I type. Expect to see your entry kit within 2 weeks if you sent your name in to Harris before mid-January (with other kits to follow with a 1-3 week time lag between request and mailing of the kit). I do not yet have a date when actual boards will be sent out to selected entries, but it shouldn't be too far off. I have exercised a prototype of the contest board, and it seems to be a reasonable environment. It is skimpy on RAM (3K bytes free), so plan to add some memory if you want to do a lot of software. I recommend a pair of 32K x 8 SRAM chips with 55 ns or faster access. The board documentation comes with schematics for memory expansion. Get your wire-wrap guns (or soldering irons) warmed up! Phil Koopman koopman@greyhound.ece.cmu.edu Arpanet 2525A Wexford Run Rd. Wexford, PA 15090 Senior Scientist at Harris Semiconductor, adjunct professor at CMU. I don't speak for them, and they don't speak for me.