KM11 Clone

[Tom Uban]

At 02:26 PM 12/13/2004 -0800, Guy Sotomayor wrote:


> > 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.
>--
>
>TTFN - Guy

Nice looking board Guy!

You might note to those who are interested that they will require a
single width extender card to use the KM11...

--tom