MOTM

The truck was loaded up yesterday and 1000s of MOTM parts are on the road to 
Indiana. It will take until Nov. 15th to unpack, sort, inventory and store the 
parts so that kitting can begin at the remote site. There are ~90 kits that I 
already had 'made up', all that is needed is gathering the 12 bags of parts + 
manual and placing with a panel in the bubble bag. Those 90 kits will ship 
first.

The kit backlog is about 450, which includes ~130 kits for the '480/'485. I will 
ship the first 30ea of these 2 kits, the remaining will ship remotely. At it's 
peak, the kit backlog hit ~720 kits which was oddly the last day of June :)  So, 
I managed to ship 280 of those all by myself but it was time to call in the 
cavalry.

My focus until the Christmas break (Dec. 15th is the last day *I* ship, but the 
remote site will ship past that) is assembled modules and '300/'310 kits. During 
my so-called "break" (Dec. 15 to Feb. 1) I will get the MIDI-CV converter ready 
for production, and then turn R&D time to the uSeq CPU board (the other pc 
boards are already done, as well as the front panels).

I strongly believe that by Feb. 1st, there will be NO KIT BACKLOG and by March 
1st, NO BACKLOG AT ALL!

There are still *many* MOTM module ideas which have been sitting idle due to 
lack of my time. I look forward to next year, being able to get many of them out 
in the field.

Paul Schreiber

On Monday 08 November 2004 04:03, Paul Schreiber wrote:

> I strongly believe that by Feb. 1st, there will be NO KIT
> BACKLOG and by March 1st, NO BACKLOG AT ALL!
>
> There are still *many* MOTM module ideas which have been
> sitting idle due to lack of my time. I look forward to
> next year, being able to get many of them out in the
> field.

Perfect! The best deal for all of us.  Too bad the prices 
will go up again, but it's still worth the quality I get, 
imo.

I'm sure it will be a little scary to order a module then 
and have it here 2 weeks later. ;)

- Robert

At 9:03 PM -0600 2004/11/07, Paul Schreiber wrote:
>The truck was loaded up yesterday and 1000s of MOTM parts are on the road to
>Indiana.

Hey, wait a minute, doesn't Stooge Larry live in Indiana? Coincidence 
or just cheap labour?

OK, here are the facts:
1. I live in Indiana
2.  I am a Stooge
3.  I am not cheap (despite cheap prices for good Stooge stuff)
4.  I am not crazy enough to get into that part stuffing business.
5.  It is some other guy.  :-)

There, I hope that dispels any rumors.
Larry (off to dig out from under the cable orders)

----- Original Message -----
From: Scott Juskiw <scott@...>
To: MOTM litserv <motm@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Monday, November 08, 2004 5:30 PM
Subject: Re: [motm] Update (new timetables)



At 9:03 PM -0600 2004/11/07, Paul Schreiber wrote:
>The truck was loaded up yesterday and 1000s of MOTM parts are on the road
to
>Indiana.

Hey, wait a minute, doesn't Stooge Larry live in Indiana? Coincidence
or just cheap labour?