Sources for 8b TTL keyboards (Keytronics)

[Alexandre Souza]

>> > than $20.  Compared to the price of admission fee for, say, FPGA,
>> > it's a real bargain.
>>     You can program xilinx and altera FPGAs for less than $20 if you have 
>> a
>> parallel port. Do a search on "byteblaster" and be happy :)
> Yes, but what about the software to compile your design (as a scheamtic
> or VHDL) into the data to program into the chip? How much does that cost
> _including the machine to run it on_

    Software is free (for Altera or Xilinx). The machine costs the same the 
machine 99% of people uses to type e-mail and read web pages.

    :o)
    Alexandre
    Your friend :)