New old products :)

[Geoffrey Reed]

On 4/13/10 2:58 PM, "Steven Hirsch" <snhirsch at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Tue, 13 Apr 2010, Geoffrey Reed wrote:
> 
>> I¹ve gotten back into my Atari systems again and since I had a couple Indus
>> GT drives, I found a schematic for the RAM upgrade board for the drives, and
>> had PCB¹s made :)  my first professionally produced PCB¹s in 20+ years.  I¹m
>> quite pleased since it was a first effort with new software when I hadn¹t
>> touched EDA software in 20 years or so.
>> 
>> Lessons learned were:
>> 
>> Increase PAD size :)  these are solderable, but are just a touch too small
>> by the software default.
>> Validate that pin one indicators REALLY render out to the gerbers. I have to
>> refer back to my PCB design for pin one since it didn¹t render.
>> Quadruple check that all wires and nets are present.  I discovered that a
>> trace between 2 pins on the connector(s) disappeared on me at some point
>> during editing, it is entirely possible I deleted it like an ID10T.  So for
>> this run of boards, wire-wrap wire will be my friend to jumper the 2 pins at
>> the PCB.
> 
> If you do another run of these, I'd be interested in one.  This is the one
> that uses SRAM, correct?
> 
> Steve
> 

Yes, uses 1/2 of a 628128. :)

I have a good supply of the boards, I got 25 of them :)