I need qty (1).

If worst comes to worst I'll do something up in EAGLE and zap it to
APCIRCUITS. Just got my first PC board ever back from them, and I'm quite
pleased.

Customer will be much happier if I don't have to spend the better part of a
day fussing with this, tho'.

The code is already written, took about 45 minutes.

Bob Ammerman
RAm Systems
(contract development of high performance, high function, low-level
software)

----- Original Message -----
From: Dale Botkin <dale@BOTKIN.ORG>
To: <PICLIST@MITVMA.MIT.EDU>
Sent: Friday, October 27, 2000 8:14 PM
Subject: Re: [PIC]: PIC SBC requirement


> On Fri, 27 Oct 2000, Bob Ammerman wrote:
>
> > I need to toss together a quick one-off for a customer. I need an
> > SBC/prototype board:
> >
> > RS232 in and out (bit bang ok). TTL levels _not_ OK. MAX232 or similar
> > greatly preferred for robustness.
> >
> > Mounting holes (you wouldn't believe the number of small boards that
have no
> > way to mount them :-).
> >
> > Small size.
> >
> > 8 pin PIC preferred.
> > 14 pin Ok.
> > 18 pin Ok.
> >
> > Crystal clock.
> >
> > Reasonable price.
> >
> > US source (for reasonably quick delivery).
> >
> >
> > Gotta do this job so it looks 'professional' (my customer's customer has
to
> > accept it as 'standard product'). Hence, no wire wrap of prototypish
stuff.
> > Otherwise I'd just cobble it together on vector board. :-)
> >
>
> If you don't find something (unlikely that you can't), whip up a design
> and have it made from expresspcb.com.  Free software, and if you need a
> bunch (like 50+) they can get downright inexpensive, even with solder mask
> & silkscreen.  They have a new service that makes qty.2 relatively cheap
> if you can do it with a fixed size board.
>
> I've been tempted to do a bunch myself and offer them for sale, but there
> seem to be a lot of places already offering a good selection.  MELabs has
> some nice ones, but I don't think they have mounting holes.
>
> Dale
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