Open source, stand alone, ASCII terminal project

[Jim Brain]

Joachim Thiemann wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 3, 2008 at 8:22 PM, Alexandre Souza
> <alexandre-listas at e-secure.com.br> wrote:
>   
>>>> SMT makes things like this possible:
>>>> www.jbrain.com/vicug/gallery/uIEC/
>>>> An entire CBM IEC compatible drive in 1.5" by 1.5" :-)
>>>>         
>>   WOW! **VERY** nice! How do you select one of the 23500 floppy images? :oD
>>     
>
> I'm with Alexandre and Ethan: That is _cool_, where can I get one? :-)
>
> Joe.
>
>   
Well, I don't want to overstep my bounds on the list, so just email me 
with which one you want and I'll let you know when a unit is ready (I 
will have quantities available soon, but I do them in batches)

The two versions:

uIEC/SD:  The 1.5" board.  It uses the same firmware as the larger 
board, but it supports SD only and is designed for embedding into 
designs.  It's $50.00.  Hopefully, 20 units will be available at World 
of COmmodore this weekend, and 100 more will be available end of the year.
uIEC/IDE+CF:  The larger board.  This unit can talk ot CF cards, IDE 
drives, or both.  It has expansion options for later enhancements (I'm 
preparing a small add on board that will provide a USB link to a 
Windows/Mac/Linux/etc. PC and an option to use SD cards and a Real time 
clock.  Later, I hope to add IEEE-488 support to this unit. $75.00 for 
the base unit.  I should have a dozen or so at WoC and 30 more a few 
weeks later.
uIEC/CF: Similar to uIEC/SD, but CF-only.  I am out of this design, and 
contemplating whether to run more.  Most folks prefer the SD unit, but I 
might run a batch of these since they use many of the same parts as the 
uIEC/IDE+CF

$5.00 ships in the US, and $15 ships international.

If folks find it interesting, I think the story of how the unit came to 
exist are rather interesting and I am proud of it, even though I had to 
swallow my pride a lot.  It involves open source, multi-continent 
collaboration, and other things possibly of interest to the list.  Dunno.

Oh, and the plans and firmware is under GPL (v2), so you are free to 
develop/build your own. 

Jim

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Jim Brain, Brain Innovations                                      (X)
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