jbm@uncle.uucp (John B. Milton) (07/21/90)
Orders for the HD2 board received as of 7/20/90:
Date
P.M. Recv Qty UPCG Name E-mail
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6/11 6/14 1 Yes Bill Carpenter wjc@hos1cad.att.com
6/13 6/16 1 No Steve Engelhardt steve@c10sd4.stpaul.ncr.com
6/15 6/16 1 Yes John Walpole jwalp@pute.uucp
6/?? 6/18 1 Yes Steve Harrison steve@jack.sns.com
6/15 6/18 1 Yes Augustine Cano afc@shibaya.lonestar.org
6/14 6/18 2 Yes Marty Litzinger marty@mlunix.uucp
6/15 6/18 2 No Scott Emery crayfe@amelia.nas.nasa.gov
6/14 6/18 1 ? Elliot Dierksen elliot@alfred.uucp
6/18 6/20 1 Yes Thomas Tkacik tkacik@kyzyl.mi.org
6/18 6/20 1 Yes Jack Dixon vogon!jcb@att
6/16 6/20 1 Yes James Apedaile pttesac!clab!jim@pacbell
6/19 6/21 1 Yes Brad Isley brad@slammer.uucp
6/20 6/22 2 No Bill Confare hcx1!hrshcx!bill@uunet.uu.net
6/20 6/22 1 Yes Mark Hartman hartman@abacab
6/20 6/22 1 Yes Albert Hybl mimsy!mbph!hybl@uunet.uu.net
6/20 6/23 1 Yes Dave Hanna letni!dms3b1!dave@texbell
6/20 6/23 1 Yes John Campbell thunde!jde@naucse.cse.nau.edu
6/21 6/25 2 Yes David Neill dwn@swbatl.sbc.com
6/22 6/25 2 Yes Kevin O'Gorman kevin@kosman.uucp
6/21 6/26 1 Yes Christopher Dutchyn dutchyn@cs.ualberta.ca
6/25 6/26 1 Yes Michel Adam adam@iceman.uucp
6/25 6/27 3 Yes Hans Fiedler hans@mongo.hfconsulting.com
6/25 6/27 1 Yes Frank Pedroni fdp@pacbell.com
6/23 6/27 1 Yes Alan Lundin alundin@carina.unm.edu
6/25 6/27 2 Yes Norman Yarvin yarvin@cs.yale.edu
6/25 6/27 2 Yes Neal Murphy motcid!murphy@uunet.uu.net
6/25 6/27 1 POM Scott Ballantyne sdb@well.uucp
6/27 6/29 1 Yes Steven Johnson navaho!scj@bellcore
6/26 6/29 3 Yes Mike Reetz dunike!onecom!miker@uunet.uu.net
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6/28 ?/?? 2 Yes Donald Lashomb donlash@uncle
7/02 ?/?? 2 No Bruce Lilly bruce@sonyusa!sonyd1!bruce@uunet
7/12 ?/?? 1 ? Henry Reynolds hdr@nidhog.cactus.org
7/18 7/20 1 ? Robert Haar haar@gmr.com
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46 x $75.00 = $3450.00
I know it's been a while, work has been very busy lately. EDA is still working
on the boards. Since I haven't turned any cash over to them yet, they're
stoppped for now. I make a trip to the bank/post office to cash a lot of checks
on Monday, then I'll take the money up and pay EDA. I will not cash the checks
over the 40 mark, I'll hold on to them until I hear from their owners. Right
now I AM planning on making another run of boards. I would be a fool to assume
all 40 of the boards in production will work. How well this lot of 40 work and
what, if anything is wrong with them will determine if I do anything to change
the design.
Work is slowly progressing on my next project: The UNIXpc/IBM-PC Buss Bridge
(UIBB). The IBM-PC bus is the only one that even comes close to the price range
of most UNIXpc users. After the HD2 experience, I've learned the value of
designing stuff that "just plugs right in", so the UIBB will be a regular
expansion card. Most of the design is still up in the air, ranging from two
extreams: minimal functionality, low part count all the way up to full
functionality: memory, I/O, interrupts, DMA, bus master, refresh, etc.
All this would open up a night mare of software to be written, but hey, that
just comes down to time...
John
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John Bly Milton IV, jbm@uncle.UUCP, n8emr!uncle!jbm@osu-cis.cis.ohio-state.edu
(614) h:252-8544, w:469-1990; N8KSN, AMPR: 44.70.0.52; Don't FLAME, inform!ryan@oxford.hw.stratus.com (Dan Guilderson) (07/23/90)
I couldn't reach John Milton through email so I'm posting. While I'm at it I might mention that I would love to see a Frequently Asked Questions type of post in this news group. I know it is a lot of work but maybe someone will be willing to take it on. I'm new to this group. What is the HD2? I guess it's an expansion board but what does it do? Since you seem to be knowledgable about upc hardware please let me ask you a question about memory expansion. I have a upc with 1M on the motherboard, is there any way to expand this to 2M? There are empty spaces for all the chips but no sockets so I think it might be kinda hard to solder in another Meg and I think there is a need for more than just RAM chips. Are you planning any projects to build a higher powered processor on an expansion board (kinda like an IBM-AT w/386 expansion board only it's a 68030 instead?) Dan Guilderson ryan@oxford.hw.stratus.com Stratus Computer Marlboro, MA -- Dan Guilderson ryan@oxford.hw.stratus.com Stratus Computer Marlboro, MA #include <stddisclaimer.h>