27 Nov
2006
27 Nov
'06
2:13 p.m.
Tony Duell wrote:
I'm only going by what I'm told by ex-employees - but it is quite possible
that there's a smattering of company folklore at work there; I've never seen
hard production figures (I don't think that such things exist).
I must admit that if the run was only 50, then there are a relative lot of
survivors (I've come across around ten over the years - which probably means
there are a fair few more than that. Even a 1 in 5 survival rate would be
pretty impressive, though)
That's interesting - I wonder how people missed it? Or maybe it's just so
uncommon that not many people even know what it is.
cheers
Jules
front, they
built maybe 50 ARM eval kits and a similar number of ACWs for
I am supriesed it was as few as that... Thinking about it, I may have 2 Atoms with Econet. One
with the official
Econet board (fitted on the solder side of the main PCB), the other
with a 'System' Exonst eurocard connected to the expansion bus.
Ooh - you don't see many Atoms using the expansion bus for System cards (with
the exception of the Disc Pack).
There were actually two variants of the System Econet boards with different
circuitry and board layout (although IIRC they share the same part number!) -
unfortunately I don't have photos immediately to hand so I can check what the
differences were... (it may just be that one has collision detection circuitry
and the other doesn't, or one has a clock generator and the other doesn't)
Valuable? Well
anything rare is valuable (as I realise that you well know) :-)
I am not convinced. A Tiger turned up on E-bay recently, and did not sell
for that much money.