Date   : Thu, 17 Sep 1987 12:09:41-PDT
From   : D-ROGERS@EDWARDS-2060.ARPA
Subject: Hobby PCB prices

My DECsystem 2060 couldn't make sense of the mailer address, that is why 
i'm not making this a personal reply.

>Message-Id: <8709161609.AA05700@lll-es-s05.ARPA>
>Date: Wed Sep 16 09:09:49 1987
>From: hanscom@lll-es-s05 (Roger Hanscom 423-0441)
>Subject: S-100 Boards

>I probably shouldn't consider myself "the average hobbyist", but $500 is
>an EXCEPTIONAL amount to pay for an S-100 card. ...
>BTW, I believe that this is where most vendors go wrong.  If it's good,
>AND AFFORDABLE, they can sell all they want to.  If one looks at the
>harware success stories of the last ten or fifteen years, this is the
>common pattern.  When a 68000-based computer falls into this category,
>I'll be first in line.

You might want to check out the 68K project in the current Radio Electronics
Magazine.  $200 for "usable" 8Mhz system kit; $500 with floppy subsys, 1Mb
memory, SK/DOS, etc.  Has Itty Bitty Machine PC bus interface to use clone 
controllers for Hard Disk, extra i/o ports (board design includes 2 serial,
1 parallel), bit-map video, etc.  I'm ordering one.            [dale]

standard disclaimers apply.

       "...of course my opinion differs from 'most everyone else!  If it
 were the same, i'd probably have to change it, lest i remain in error."