From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Jan 30 18:16:25 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id SAA02096 for hackers-outgoing; Tue, 30 Jan 1996 18:16:25 -0800 (PST) Received: from genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au [129.127.96.120]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id SAA02035 for ; Tue, 30 Jan 1996 18:16:06 -0800 (PST) Received: from msmith@localhost by genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (8.6.12/8.6.9) id MAA16885; Wed, 31 Jan 1996 12:56:42 +1030 From: Michael Smith Message-Id: <199601310226.MAA16885@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> Subject: Re: Watchdog timers (was: Re: Multi-Port Async Cards) To: jgreco@brasil.moneng.mei.com (Joe Greco) Date: Wed, 31 Jan 1996 12:56:42 +1030 (CST) Cc: terry@lambert.org, freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <199601302155.PAA06006@brasil.moneng.mei.com> from "Joe Greco" at Jan 30, 96 03:55:53 pm MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk Joe Greco stands accused of saying: > > Actually, besides this being very ugly, I was referring to building > production models, not prototypes... I need about six. :-) Since I don't > have the facilities here to do any sort of PC boards, that leaves me with > the ugly option of using PC prototyping cards (or other "build-n-go" > solutions). All of which are expensive. I can do PCBs. The real problem being that even if I sell one to everyone here, I still won't be competing pricewise with a large manufacturer. At a guess, I'd say that a bare board (no parts) would come to ~$30 if I were to do 10 or more. (This is assuming that there was very little actually on the board). If this is desirable and nobody's got anything more attractive, I guess I can come up with something. Depending on what parts were required, I'd guess at ~$60 or so (assembled). (My guess is a GAL and an 8254 would be the order of the day). > Joe Greco - Systems Administrator jgreco@ns.sol.net -- ]] Mike Smith, Software Engineer msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] Genesis Software genesis@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] High-speed data acquisition and (GSM mobile) 0411-222-496 [[ ]] realtime instrument control (ph/fax) +61-8-267-3039 [[ ]] "wherever you go, there you are" - Buckaroo Banzai [[