Sounds good you can count on me for some fund raising, I don't have much these days but I will get some together for you!

I will post this in the thread!

Thanks,

Charles

On Nov 27, 2012, at 7:34 PM, Andrew Lynch wrote:

Hi Charles

Thanks! Actually just keeping the topic alive at 68kmla would be of help in case there is someone there who can and would be able to help us complete the board. This has been an ongoing concern for a couple of years now so I am always looking to boost the team with additional talent. We’ve got great builders on board already but we can always use another set of eyes to help move it along.

Also once this build and test phase is complete I suspect we’ll need another round of prototype boards to incorporate the fixes so far like the termination resistors and a “write prevent” jumper/pull up resistor on the Flash ROM. I think there was another fix that Douglas or someone else found a while back. In any event, there will probably be some minor fund raising for the new boards so some visibility 68kmla, CCTALK, and vintage-computer.com forums would be helpful as well.

I appreciate your interest so far. Thanks and have a happy holidays!

Andrew Lynch

Sent: Tuesday, November 27, 2012 10:46 AM

To: Andrew Lynch

Cc: mouse@netbsd.org; 'RobJ'; jwsmail@jwsss.com; douglas_goodall@mac.com

Subject: Re: SCSI to IDE/SD bridge board project

my personal expertise pretty much ends at assembling a pcb, that I can do.

as far as firmware, I would be pretty much useless, unless someone is motivated enough

to teach me a few things. That would probably detract from the current progress on this project.

In my opinion, it seems like its most of the way there, just needs a little more effort by the right people

and you will have a board that we can all appreciate and seriously use!

Charles

On Nov 24, 2012, at 1:23 PM, Andrew Lynch wrote:

Hi Mouse! If you'd like some help just send an email "reply all" so we can

help share the experiences.

There are many sources for the PLCC-44 sockets and Z80 CPU. Here is Jameco,

Digikey, and Futurlec links but are probably also available locally or

through any other electronic supply house.

PLCC-44 sockets

http://www.jameco.com/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/Product_10001_10001_71618_-1'>http://www.jameco.com/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/Product_10001_10001_71618_-1

http://www.jameco.com/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/Product_10001_10001_71618_-1

http://www.digikey.com/product-detail/en/A-CCS44-Z-R/AE10057-ND/821811

http://www.digikey.com/product-detail/en/8444-11B1-RK-TP/3M4411B1-ND/1026473

http://www.futurlec.com/Sockets/PLCCS44.shtml

Z80 CPU

http://www.jameco.com/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/Product_10001_10001_35705_-1

http://www.digikey.com/product-detail/en/Z84C0008PEG/269-3895-ND/929205

http://www.futurlec.com/ICZ80Series.shtml

Thanks and have a happy holidays!

Andrew Lynch

-----Original Message-----

From: mouse@netbsd.org [mailto:mouse@netbsd.org]

Sent: Saturday, November 24, 2012 11:53 AM

To: Andrew Lynch; RobJ; jwsmail@jwsss.com; douglas_goodall@mac.com;

Subject: Re: SCSI to IDE/SD bridge board project

If there are builders there who would like to work on the SCSI to

IDE/SD bridge project please have them contact me. A suitable builder

would be experienced with electronics project build and test, writing

SCSI and IDE firmware, etc. There are several builders working on the

project already so it won't be like starting from scratch.

One thing Andrew doesn't mention is that an expertise in sourcing parts is

also important. (That's where I'm blocked - I'm having trouble finding

things

like the PGA socket for the SCSI chip, or for that matter a Z80, as

opposed to

any of numerous extended-in-various-ways

Z80 variants.)

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