MOTM

I spent a lot of time this past week getting all of my new CAD software 
installed. Some of it requires the use of a USB 'dongle' (the older ones were 
off printer ports) in order to operate. Of course, the dongle drivers interfered 
with other programs, I had to reinstall, blah blah blah. But I eventually got 
all of it to work together without locking up. I generally update my CAD tools 
every 6 years or so, and 2006 was the year. I am hoping this is the last time, 
it is getting out of hand, expense-wise. I always use legal copies of all my 
software: I don't mind paying $300 for a program that I use all the time, but 
these $4500 programs are over-priced in today's market. I suppose I should be 
*grateful*, since I started doing serious CAD work around 1994 when I paid 
~$5600 for a Zeos 386 and $1200 for a 17" Nokia (!!) monitor and $2300 for the 
laser printer. And the DOS version of TangoPCB (precursor to what I use now) was 
$16,000 with the autorouter.

I does appear the V1.1 is stable enough to be the "official" release for the 
MOTM-650, so I am going full-steam-ahead. I built 10 '650s over the weekend, and 
next weekend will build 10 more. I will have to make more stuffed pc boards 
toward the end of the month to cover all the orders.

Indiana is in the process of kitting up over 125 modules for the first round of 
shipments. It will take then ~10 more days to finish. About 80% of the parts 
that I ordered have arrived, the front panels and tempcos are still the pacing 
items.My day-to-day interaction with Indiana is about over for the rest of the 
month, so I will get back to spending most of my time on assembled modules and 
when that gets too boring, I will run over and work on releasing the MOTM-730 VC 
Pulse Divider and getting the AudioEngine prototype designed. Analogue Haven 
also needs Frac modules, I haven't forgot about them :)

As a gentle reminder: please understand that I cannot say exactly when your 
order can ship. I don't have this pre-printed out schedule for every module for 
every person. Rest assured I work on MOTM all the time, usually 7 days/week. 
Everyone will get their stuff, you may have to email me several times for stuff 
not on the new shopping cart but once Indiana gets stocked up and all the parts 
are in (by next month) we can ship all the modules out fairly quickly.

Paul S.