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- From: nagle@netcom.com (John Nagle)
- Subject: Re: Miniboard CPU order status Jan 1 1993
- Message-ID: <1993Jan2.181512.13702@netcom.com>
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- References: <1993Jan1.233618.14287@hemlock.cray.com>
- Date: Sat, 2 Jan 1993 18:15:12 GMT
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- kilian@cray.com (Alan Kilian) writes:
- >This is a status as of Jan 1 1993.
- > I am in New York right now but I will bw back in Minneapolis Jan 4.
- > The latest date I have gotten from Future is "Early January"
- > I will call them January 4 and get a revised date. They have slipped the
- > date 4 time so far just incase you are wondering they always say that
- > Motorola is not shipping them their parts.
- > The last time I called other distributors they gave me dates like April
-
- It's worth noting that there are other suppliers of M68HC11 boards.
- The price is higher, but you get delivery.
-
- New Micros, 1601 Chalk Hill Road, Dallas, TX 75212,
- (214) 339-2204 sells small M68HC11 boards, down to 2" x 2" size.
- These come with Forth on-chip, although you don't have to use it.
- I've used their boards with good results. They've been shipping
- boards since 1986 or so.
-
- Embedded Systems Journal, Circuit Cellar INK, and Nuts and Volts
- all carry ads for board-level systems. Prices for 68HC11 boards seem
- to run in the $100-$300 range. 8051-based boards run cheaper, as low
- as $38, and quite powerful systems with small form factors are available
- for a few hundred dollars. I don't have any experience with any of these
- companies other than CuBIT, from which I bought a nice NEC V40 board a
- few years back.
-
- It's tough selling electronics for less than 4x the parts cost.
-
- John Nagle
-