Post B6J6oPXCgFc4bh8vLs by tomjennings@tldr.nettime.org
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 (DIR) Post #B6J6oPXCgFc4bh8vLs by tomjennings@tldr.nettime.org
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       $40/board, it's a lot. 270 goes in the fascists pocket ("tarriff"). Parts costs, everything-costs, high. Also it's just a shit-ton of money to pay out. And it is possible (though unlikely) I screwed something up in some way. Unlikely, it's a revision of a board I've made already, and it's KiCad, and JLCPCB has great tools, but still, it's a kilobuck.The last JLCPCB package was tossed over a neighbor's fence, too. Our lovely neighbor brought it to me. Yet another opp for disaster. I'm making 25 machines, gonna sell the for cost + 10% or something, I hope to get it all back....
       
 (DIR) Post #B6J6oPs7QULLeYvcx6 by ai6yr@m.ai6yr.org
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       @tomjennings What in the world are you building?
       
 (DIR) Post #B6J6oQ3oizhWEqOyBc by tomjennings@tldr.nettime.org
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       @ai6yr Oh this. https://www.bleeve.me/fZ80/index.htmlIt's at the professional-product level of completion. Turnkey MP/M II 2.1! Lol everyone wants one!
       
 (DIR) Post #B6J6oQD2Aj4chQiKYK by ai6yr@m.ai6yr.org
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       @tomjennings OH wow, you're building your own computer? NEAT.
       
 (DIR) Post #B6J6oQJPn0B51DhQUy by tomjennings@tldr.nettime.org
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       @ai6yr Sure! Great! I'll announce them here first. I'll sell though eBay as I did last time. Just BUY IT NOW fixed price. I want them out there more than I want to make money. Though I'm going to Crowd Supply's TEARDOWN 2026 in July, and giving a talk about experimental archaeological look at MP/M. I've emailed with the guy who wrote it for Digital Research! The new manual is available as a big fat PDF on bleeve.meOoh I will put up the cover art, it's pretty if a bit functional.
       
 (DIR) Post #B6J6oQSdEjYBTo0mrg by ai6yr@m.ai6yr.org
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       @tomjennings Oh, it's just neat you are able to build a modern board/machine to do this....
       
 (DIR) Post #B6J6oQaQljmxrzf11M by tomjennings@tldr.nettime.org
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       @ai6yr I usually make 5 boards, their minimum. So if some part is out of stock, I leave it off, buy from Digikey etc, and hand solder at home.This time with 25 boards, I did the whole parts inventory thing. Holy crap it's fairly complicated; a web form driven marketplace, persona industries, leftover sales, consignments, cash accounts, global market ordering... it's crazy complex. Took me a week to puzzle that shit out alone.One connector had three more weeks to wait, it got extended once, so I punted and left it off. I'll do that at home.And customer service is amazing. Harsh in that chinese way (customer is WRONG! lol) (but I was wrong!), like your mother scolding you, but lovingly. But very helpful and it's all so polite you end up falling into super politeness everywhere all the time, such a refreshing change from shit US service.
       
 (DIR) Post #B6J72yt42Me8IzJdIG by nach@detroitriotcity.com
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       @tomjennings thanks for the 270, dumbass :lol: