KM11 Clone

[Guy Sotomayor]

> I've been working on creating a clone of DEC's maintenance panel
> (KM11)
> for some time now.  I intended it to be used as my "hello world" board
> to get familiar with EagleCAD and the board fab process.
> 
> On Friday my first boards arrived from the fab house.  I spent this
> weekend building up 2 boards and both worked perfectly the first time.
> It was so cool to be able to single step the microcode in an 11/40!
> 
> It's up on my web site
> (http://www.shiresoft.com/pdp-11/boards/index.html) for those that
> want
> to see what it looks like.  Sometime this week I'll take a picture of
> the 11/40 with 2 KM11's hanging out of it!
> 
> My first batch of boards/parts has already been spoken for.  But for
> any
> who are interested, I'll place another order for parts/boards for
> delivery sometime in January.
> 
> Each board will come with complete schematics, parts list and assembly
> instructions.  I will also have collected drawings for the overlays
> and
> instructions on use for the various processors (11/20, 11/05, 11/40,
> 11/45 and 11/70).
> 
> I'm pricing as follows:
>         "Bare" Board                     $75
>         "kit" (includes all the parts)  $125
>         assembled and tested            $250 (I really don't want to)
> 
OK, I just got a couple of board quotes with larger quantities.  If I
can get an order of ~50 boards, I can drop the prices by $40!  So the
pricing would be:
        "Bare" Board                     $35
        "kit" (includes all the parts)   $85
        assembled and tested            $250 (I still don't want to)

If I can get a preliminary count of folks who want one (or two or ...) I
can get the boards and parts ordered.  I'd like to place the orders
during the first week of January.
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TTFN - Guy