[sdiy] Cool chip alert

[Joel Kirchartz]

The background on it's user-data ( 
http://www.magnevation.com/pdfs/speakjetusermanual.pdf )
sais "Preliminary Data" so I'm guessing you're right ... but, my being a 
webdesigner by day & nerd by night I can tell that they spent way too much 
time on building the website for the chip.

all things considered, I want a dozen of them so I can have nice x-mas 
presents for my other nerd friends ...

~kirch

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>On Mon, 23 Feb 2004, Metzger, Michael A wrote:
>
> > HVW Tech has an eval board for $79.
> > http://www.hvwtech.com/pages/products_view.asp?ProductID=506  Well,
> > it's kind of an eval board. Not much info there. Funny that the
> > vendor doesn't say anything about it on their website. Maybe
> > HVW makes it.
>
>In fairness to Magnevation, it looks like they released this
>sucker only 15 days ago. Seems like their objective was to
>get the chip out with just enough documentation to inspire some
>interest in the part. Having worked for a few small companies,
>I bet that now's when they'll be working on finalising the "real"
>documentation -- or that's the plan, at least. They may find themselves
>very busy with sales chores and customer queries, and have to postpone
>getting the docs done. I do hope that they get some better info
>out, though -- even though hobbyists are notorious for not being
>picky about specifications, better docs does lead to better sales.
>
>- Colin Hinz
>   Toronto, Canada
>
>
>

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