More P112 boards coming

[David Griffith]

Enough people are asking about the P112 that I think I can justify
taking preorders.  I don't know exactly how much it'll cost for this
run, but I'm fairly sure it'll be decently similar to how it was last
time, which was US$165.  I'll have the parts costs calculated out in a
couple days.  Then I'll know how many preorders will be needed to get
things rolling.  Stand by for more info.

I anticipate three visible changes in the kit.

1) Depending on how many 32k chips I have left, I may go ahead and make 1M 
modules of the sort that Terry made up a while ago.  512k chips in DIP 
packages is very expensive, but for SMT packages, it's very cheap.  The 1M 
module is nothing more than a daughterboard that plugs into the P112 and 
behaves exactly like a pair of DIPs.

2) Add two holes near the RTC crystal.  I think it would be cleaner to
use a loop of wire to hold the crystal down instead of a blob of epoxy.

3) Change the battery holder to something more compatible with add-on
boards.


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David Griffith
dgriffi at cs.csubak.edu

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