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Re: keyboards - inspiration brings upon revolution

Umm why burn BS2's for people?  25 cents in parts and you can program the
bs2.
besides, I get my kicks from wading throught other's code.

-----Original Message-----
From: Omar Jenkins <>
To: Mark Willis <>
Cc:  <>
Date: Tuesday, June 01, 1999 9:05 PM
Subject: Re: keyboards - inspiration brings upon revolution

>Once someone has nailed down a cricuit diagram that works, and a program
>to put into the EEPROM that also works, it wouldn't be too much of a
>bother to get the person who developed the clone to burn EEPROMs for
>people who were building them based on the developers design.  All the
>builder would do is send the EEPROM chip to the developer(it would take
>nothing more than 33 cents in postage), the developer would burn it(would
>take about 5 minutes for the whole process, then mail it back.  I'm
>nowhere near the stage of getting mine finished, but would be willing to
>burn BS2 chips once I am.
>
>On Mon, 31 May 1999, Mark Willis wrote:
>
>> For those with an
>> EPRom eraser & programmer, EProm based parts are nice - but for most
>> users, the cost of an EPRom eraser plus a socket for the PIC plus a PIC
>> Programmer, means the Twiddler CLONE costs them more than the Twiddler,
>> this is not a good thing <G>  It's OK for the developers, not workable
>> for the end users!  The Atmel AT90S8515 comes in TQFP packaging, or in
>> 40-pin DIP for prototyping.  And costs $6ish apiece, less in quantity.
>> $49 for the STK200 programmer, to get you started.  Also, the program
>> can easily be in C instead of Assembler, as you're running 4 times the
>> CPU speed for the same clock rate, it's just a good answer.
>
>{Omar Jenkins class of 1998/2002|"The more you study, the more you know,  }
>{Blair HS Graduate & UMCP Frosh | the more you know, the more you forget, }
>{<>            | the more you forget, the less you know."}
>{<>        |           ??So Why Study??              }
>
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