MPX-16 census

On Sun, 09 Oct 2005 12:05:01 -0600 woodelf <bfranchuk at jetnet.ab.ca> wrote: Price is probably down to $50 when you buy 1000, but this isn't a board that we could find 1000 customers for at $50 apiece. It could be a realistic candidate for a two layer board that does the worst/most repetetive of the busses and power with the holes sized for wire-wrap sockets. But that's a huge engineering project just to recreate something, and there'd still be huge amounts of wire wrapping to perform. I once in my naive youth bought a 'bare kit' unpopulated PC-XT clone motherboard (this was from a Canadian company, btw.) It was only a two layer design, and I never did get it populated. It probably wouldn't have been stable, with the deficient power and grounding inherent in a high chip count two layer layout. (okay, somebodys turn to say it can all be done in an ASIC)