Steven.D.Ligett@mac.dartmouth.edu (09/07/90)
Volume 1, Number 6. "I hope you have an anti-static wrist strap on!"
me
I needn't have worried about the CPU and FPU chips - they were in antistatic
carriers in antistatic bags in antistatic bags.
Oh, the CPUs and (some of the) FPUs are here! I'll be spending Saturday
packing the parts up, and I'll try to make it to Fed Ex by 5 p.m. Saturday
with many of the parts. Since not all of the FPUs are in, I'll put those that
are in in packages going out of the USA, since I can cheaply ship the FPUs
separately in the USA.
New Orders. I'm not taking any new orders right now. After I finish getting
all the old (and some are Really Old) orders out, I'll try to figure out if I
can do more. It's not clear at this point if I have made or lost money on
this, and I've certainly lost time. I'll certainly handle new orders
differently from the old - I had several problems, mostly of my own making.
It's likely that I'll either sell complete kits, or sell off excess inventory
that I have, but I won't take orders for random bits and pieces. I might take
orders for groups of items, i.e.
all connectors, sockets and wire
all resistors, diodes, caps, crystals, etc.
all logic except cpu chipset
cpu chipset
memory
If you may be interested in parts, please drop me a line - I believe I can be
reached as
pc532@dartmouth.edu or steve.ligett@dartmouth.edu or
pc532-parts@dartmouth.edu or
...!...!dartvax!stevel
Costs. Several have asked about costs of building the pc532. Here are
estimates. Costs change daily. (AMP, for example, just had a price increase
- from 0% to 500% on different items.)
board - $200 (from George and Dave)
cpu - $620
fpu - $185
memory - $320 (4 megs, Toshiba parity memory)
rest - $300 (this is the rest of what goes on the board. doesn't include
box, power, disk drive, etc.)
I'm not sure NSC will continue to let Dave order FPUs at that price, since
they don't make the PLCC version, and the PGA version is much more. I have
thought about a "low-priced" pc532 - using the 20mhz components, and
non-parity memory (possibly "Mac" memory). That might save up to $300. Is
there interest?
Folks in Australia, and New Zealand -- my mail keeps bouncing. Simon Burge's
compatriots - I think I've been paid for half; $216 still owed. Eyal - it's
coming.
I've also got the 4 4-meg SIMMs that someone ordered. I've got to muck
through my archives to find you, or you can write me.
Thank you for your patronage.