Re: [stella] Cartridge PCBs have arrived

[Joe Grand <jgrand@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

At 02:13 AM 5/8/2001 -0400, Chris wrote:
> Yah, you can do this...with a couple of resistors added.  Cheaper, but only
> by a few cents.  A 7404 chip only costs 30 cents or so.  A transistor is
> maybe 10 cents and a resistor is 1 cent.  These are rough figures of course.
> But the relative costs are about right.  In this case, since the pcb is
> designed to fit a standard atari case, there's plenty of extra room for
> the dip.  Besides:  100 14 pin dips are easier to install than 100
> transistors and 200 resistors!  :)
>
> Of course if you're making 100 boards, that 22 cents comes to 22 dollars!  ;)
> Ahh....tradeoffs, tradeoffs....

Exactly. Soldering 14-pin DIPs is much easier than installing 3 legged 
transistors, bending leads, etc. (based on experience which hopefully I'll 
never have to go through again :)

Joe


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