HD2 order update

[John B. Milton]

Orders for the HD2 board received as of 7/20/90:

   Date
P.M.  Recv  Qty  UPCG  Name                E-mail
----  ----  ---  ----  ------------------  ------------------------------------
6/11  6/14   1    Yes  Bill Carpenter      wjc at hos1cad.att.com
6/13  6/16   1     No  Steve Engelhardt    steve at c10sd4.stpaul.ncr.com
6/15  6/16   1    Yes  John Walpole        jwalp at pute.uucp
6/??  6/18   1    Yes  Steve Harrison      steve at jack.sns.com
6/15  6/18   1    Yes  Augustine Cano      afc at shibaya.lonestar.org
6/14  6/18   2    Yes  Marty Litzinger     marty at mlunix.uucp
6/15  6/18   2     No  Scott Emery         crayfe at amelia.nas.nasa.gov
6/14  6/18   1      ?  Elliot Dierksen     elliot at alfred.uucp
6/18  6/20   1    Yes  Thomas Tkacik       tkacik at kyzyl.mi.org
6/18  6/20   1    Yes  Jack Dixon          vogon!jcb at att
6/16  6/20   1    Yes  James Apedaile      pttesac!clab!jim at pacbell
6/19  6/21   1    Yes  Brad Isley          brad at slammer.uucp
6/20  6/22   2     No  Bill Confare        hcx1!hrshcx!bill at uunet.uu.net
6/20  6/22   1    Yes  Mark Hartman        hartman at abacab
6/20  6/22   1    Yes  Albert Hybl         mimsy!mbph!hybl at uunet.uu.net
6/20  6/23   1    Yes  Dave Hanna          letni!dms3b1!dave at texbell
6/20  6/23   1    Yes  John Campbell       thunde!jde at naucse.cse.nau.edu
6/21  6/25   2    Yes  David Neill         dwn at swbatl.sbc.com
6/22  6/25   2    Yes  Kevin O'Gorman      kevin at kosman.uucp
6/21  6/26   1    Yes  Christopher Dutchyn dutchyn at cs.ualberta.ca
6/25  6/26   1    Yes  Michel Adam         adam at iceman.uucp
6/25  6/27   3    Yes  Hans Fiedler        hans at mongo.hfconsulting.com
6/25  6/27   1    Yes  Frank Pedroni       fdp at pacbell.com
6/23  6/27   1    Yes  Alan Lundin         alundin at carina.unm.edu
6/25  6/27   2    Yes  Norman Yarvin       yarvin at cs.yale.edu
6/25  6/27   2    Yes  Neal Murphy         motcid!murphy at uunet.uu.net
6/25  6/27   1    POM  Scott Ballantyne    sdb at well.uucp
6/27  6/29   1    Yes  Steven Johnson      navaho!scj at bellcore
6/26  6/29   3    Yes  Mike Reetz          dunike!onecom!miker at uunet.uu.net
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6/28  ?/??   2    Yes  Donald Lashomb      donlash at uncle
7/02  ?/??   2     No  Bruce Lilly         bruce at sonyusa!sonyd1!bruce at uunet
7/12  ?/??   1      ?  Henry Reynolds      hdr at nidhog.cactus.org
7/18  7/20   1      ?  Robert Haar         haar at gmr.com
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            46 x $75.00 = $3450.00

I know it's been a while, work has been very busy lately. EDA is still working
on the boards. Since I haven't turned any cash over to them yet, they're
stoppped for now. I make a trip to the bank/post office to cash a lot of checks
on Monday, then I'll take the money up and pay EDA. I will not cash the checks
over the 40 mark, I'll hold on to them until I hear from their owners. Right
now I AM planning on making another run of boards. I would be a fool to assume
all 40 of the boards in production will work. How well this lot of 40 work and
what, if anything is wrong with them will determine if I do anything to change
the design.

Work is slowly progressing on my next project: The UNIXpc/IBM-PC Buss Bridge
(UIBB). The IBM-PC bus is the only one that even comes close to the price range
of most UNIXpc users. After the HD2 experience, I've learned the value of
designing stuff that "just plugs right in", so the UIBB will be a regular
expansion card. Most of the design is still up in the air, ranging from two
extreams: minimal functionality, low part count all the way up to full
functionality: memory, I/O, interrupts, DMA, bus master, refresh, etc.
All this would open up a night mare of software to be written, but hey, that
just comes down to time...

John
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