Interest in a PDP-8/e/a/f/m 32K RAM kit?

Sign me up... --Bill ________________________________ From: Steve Lafferty <steve at tronola.com> To: General Discussion: On-Topic Posts Only <cctech at classiccmp.org> Sent: Tuesday, March 4, 2014 5:50 AM Subject: Interest in a PDP-8/e/a/f/m 32K RAM kit? I've heard from a fellow, Vince S., who has created a PCB layout for the PDP-8/e 32K RAM design presented in my article on Tronola.com. He's considering a Kickstarter launch to offer a $95 kit of parts and PCB but is wondering if there is sufficient interest. If so, please let it be known. Features include: ? - Battery backup with estimated 10-year data retention. ? - Inhibit on power fail to prevent memory corruption. ? - Most of the full size Omnibus board offers a prototyping layout. ? - Cooperation with any mix of core memory boards. Switches disable 4K fields. ? - Compatibility with Omnibus specs. ? - All through-hole parts, for easy assembly. I'm not associated with the project, other than having published the article and encouraging his efforts. Vince has published lots of PDP-8-related and other layouts on his website and will make this one available as well: http://so-much-stuff.com/pdp8/cad/cad.php The article is at: http://www.tronola.com/html/ram_for_pdp-8e.html Thanks, Steve Lafferty http://www.tronola.com/