In SX Microcontrollers, SX/B Compiler and SX-Key Tool, James Newton wrote:

SXList.com will be closing at the end of this month due to a lack of financial support and a need to focus on other things.
 

Copies of the site are available via a 2 CD set from

[url=http://www.sxlist.com/dontripthissite.htm#cd]http://www.sxlist.com/dontripthissite.htm#cd[/url]

 

PLEASE! [b]Do not rip the site[/b] as that will result in the site being shut down immediatly.

 

Anyone (both of you?) who is currently contributing on a monthly basis should cancel thier support via PayPal and request a refund of any donations since the last newsletter was published.

 

Before anyone speaks up with a donation $10 or even $100. Please know that the real cost of keeping the site up is about $150 [i]per month[/i] when you include the bandwidth, up-keep, management, and other incidental costs. Unless you can commit to putting out some amount [i]every single month[/i]. Please do not bother. If 10 people donated $15 per month, I would keep it up... maybe. But that isn't happening.

 

I was hopeing that I could write a newsletter and fund the site from that. But the response was underwhelming and I just don't have time to keep trying. I need to focus on more important things.

 

I have tried to offer related items for sale from the site, and to offer advertising, neither has generated any funding.

 

Some of the content will be transferred to Parallax if they want to host it. Most will still be available at piclist.com which I will continue to try to keep up for a while. I will be seeking support for piclist.com from Microchip and other PIC related businesses, and they will have every right to ask me to remove what ever content they wish so I can not assume that everything will stay.

 

I will stay on as a subscriber to the SX forum here at Parallax for a while and then drift off to other, more practical, interests.

 

I must say, I have enjoyed working with the SX chips, talking to all of you, and thinking about what a fast little controller can do. I'm sure the future is bright for the SX and its users.

 

Best wishes.

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