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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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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
