On Tue, 24 Nov 1998, Ethan Dicks <erd(a)infinet.com> wrote: ] I am cranking along with the capture of the Elf99 design (on OrCAD for DOS, ] a 10-year-old program, no less). I wanted to throw out what I have ] descided on and ask for suggestions on what is not set in stone. ] ... I didn't speak up before, but I'm sitting on the "interested" side of the fence. As for my personal preferences, modern chips are fine, if they are cheap, easy to use, readily available, and relatively standard (so they are likely to remain available for a while yet). I never had an Elf of any sort, so I don't have any attachment to any particular aspect of that. So to me, being 1802-based and being cheap/easy would be the big attractions. If I could populate the entire board for under $20, that would probably be enough to pull me off the fence entirely. Cheers, Bill.