1995 DSD pre-offering
The 1995 DSD pre-offering is currently on hold due to a lack of
interest.
Date: Wed, 8 Feb 95 09:07:46 EST
From: Bob Ramstad
To: dat-heads@virginia.edu
Subject: pending DSD offering
howdy. i'm planning on having a DSD offering in the not too distant
future. i am hoping to be in a position to begin taking orders around
the end of March with kits shipped in July. (from experience, the
manufacturers of the various DSD parts can take up to three months to
fill my orders.)
the DSD kit is being redesigned but won't change radically. the power
supply and LED drivers will be improved. support will be provided for
PCB mount RCA jacks, LEDs and switches, as well as for headers. PCB
layout will be improved in general to make it easier to put the DSD in
a chassis. (there may be an offering of chassis + PCB mount part kits
as well.) minor functional improvements will also be made. complete
details will be furnished when the kit announcement is made.
for now, i'd like to take a straw poll. the kits will most likely run
around $150 (same as last time) and include virtually everything you
need to get the kit up and running except for chassis and related
hardware. (basically the same stuff included in previous kits.)
before i expend a lot of effort trying to put this thing together, i'd
like to have an idea of how many people are interested. if you are
fairly certain you'd purchase DSD kits in this time frame and at this
price, send email to 'rramstad+dsd@nfic.com'. please tell me how many
kits you are likely to buy.
i'd like to see an overall number of 100 or so from all of dat-heads,
but will probably go through with it if people need at least 50 kits.
as always, the dsd information (from last time, naturally) is
available via anonymous FTP at atd.ucar.edu, cd pub/dat-heads/dsd.
please check this information out before asking me for more details
about the kits or what the DSD is capable of doing / not doing.
thanks!
-- Bob