20 Mar
2009
20 Mar
'09
4:36 p.m.
You know the hiring managers I normally talk to have no knowledge of hardware design.
So even if I am showing off my electrical engineering prowest by implementing a IEEE-696
memory board.
I have the Protel product (www.protel.com), a $4500 piece of software back in 1999/2000
which became Altium (http://www.altium.com/) used to design the most sophisticated
hardware. The manufacturing of the boards I understand have become quite cheap. Anyway
thank for URL.
But remember I am primarily as very senior software developer with lots of hardware know
how. So how would that hardware know how be exploited in getting me contracts?
At least that has not been the interest when people look at me. But still it is a skill I
would one day like to exploite in getting a contract
Michael
--- On Fri, 3/20/09, David Griffith <dgriffi at cs.csubak.edu> wrote:
From: David Griffith <dgriffi at cs.csubak.edu>
Subject: Re: CompuPro CPU-68000
To: "General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts" <cctalk at
classiccmp.org>
Date: Friday, March 20, 2009, 5:57 PM
On Thu, 19 Mar 2009, Michael Hart wrote:
I am not some much as a collector of these old systems
as I am a user.
Any board I have I actually use for something. Nothing
sits around
collecting dust.
I have actually been know to give away boards I don't physically use.
Actually
I just gave away 60 lbs box of boards and misc parts. So these days I
have exactly the boards I use along with a large collection of IC to fix the
boards.
Remember a persons becomes someone else's junk when you past away. So
I am a
minimalist if it is not used regularly, out the door it goes
Now that you mentioned I think I may revisit making a 16MB board for the
S100 bus
for my upcoming LINUX port. The amount of headache I am having getting
what I want is becoming a bit too much.
Think about it this way: the act of designing and producing your own memory
board will be good experience to cite when shopping a resume around. If you
start with a prototyping S100 board to get all the live testing done, then you
probably won't need to make more than one or two PCB prototypes.
Furthermore, check out sparkfun.com for their batchpcb.com service. The
turnaround time is long, but it's cheap. They don't do gold fingers
though.
Wasn't someone talking about making S100 prototype cards some time ago?
-- David Griffith
dgriffi at cs.csubak.edu
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