Howard Winter wrote :

> On Mon, 13 Dec 2004 09:05:05 -0500, Dave Lag wrote:
>=20
> > Speaking of which, What was the end result of the=20
> > Jan-Eric/3M zif clone saga?
>=20
> I don't know if Jan-Erik had any success,...

The jury is still out on that :-)
Actualy, when I saw Dave's question above, I called our
local Swedish office again. They have promised to call me
back later today. I do know that the case have been at the
"legal dept." at the 3M HQ in the US during this fall.

Anyway, I'll let you know whenever I get a message from 3M.

> For those US-based, Jameco has the Aries for about US$12, for=20
> us Brits Rapid Electronics has them for UK=A311=20
> plus VAT (about $23.50 at the current exchange rate). =20

I got one from eBay for $4.95 + $8.15 ship or a total of $13.10.
No to bad. And it's a *real* Aries :-)

> We're rather better off with the "odd" resistor values:=20
> Maplin sells them individually, whereas Jameco sells=20
> them by the hundred.  I really don't have a need for 99x 6R8=20
> resistors... unless I start selling kits for=20
> Easyprog builders! :-)

Pesonaly, I don't think the EasyProg will "take off" if there isn't
kits made available. It's just to much trouble sourcing everything
for a single unit.

A few weeks ago I was at a site with a batch of surplus 1% 1/4 W
metalfilm resistors, most of the E96 values. I was thinking of looking
for matching values for the Easyprog. But they wanted me to
take the whole batch. Most values was a couple of 1000's, some values
was over 150.000 pc... That's quite a lot of EasyProg's ! :-) :-)

Jan-Erik.




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