On the ECB boards on the wiki site, people usually make a folder and move all the old files into it when a new revision is rolled. PropIO, SBC-188, Color VDU, all have been rolled to Rev 2 and all the Rev 1 info is there.
I really like the format of S100Computers.com and the "story" of each board, I think it explains the design well and if you read about each boards in order starting with the first one from years ago you learn a lot about the S-100 bus! And it's cool to see it progress toward the 486 (or maybe AMD 586/Pentium?) board at the "end of the rainbow". I literally went out and found my Vector MZ to play with to lean before I started building, because of reading the website. But I do agree some change control would be good. The group has run almost every board through fabrication since January. I've collected them all - but I'm just getting started building. I'd hate to end up with "superceded" PCBs later where the info isn't there. If there's anything I can do to help, let me know. I'd rather John be spending the time on boards, I'd be happy to help with documentation. Andrew B On Wednesday, July 23, 2014 2:24:39 PM UTC-7, yoda wrote: > > John > > Thanks for the update - probably should come up with a strategy to keep a > history on each board as over time we are going to have different versions > of some boards with different build configurations and not everyone is > going to get their boards built before it might be superseded by a new > board. But if someone wants to go back and look at thing say for V1 of > SMB board your site doesn't have the old schematics and board layout so you > have to go to the PBworks site and hope someone created a folder for older > board and archived things. I think this is going to be a problem over time > that we probably need to think about. > > Dave > > On Wednesday, July 23, 2014 3:54:04 PM UTC-5, monahanz wrote: >> >> Opp’s sorry about that Dave. I have redone the “build notes” to >> include both mezzanine boards. See:- >> >> >> http://s100computers.com/My%20System%20Pages/16M%20RAM%20Board/16MG%20RAM%20Board.htm >> >> >> >> John >> >> >> >> >> >> *From:* yoda [mailto:[email protected]] >> *Sent:* Wednesday, July 23, 2014 9:52 AM >> *To:* [email protected] >> *Cc:* [email protected] >> *Subject:* Re: [N8VEM-S100:4675] Re: S-100-16M-SRAM-MEZZ-V6c Board - >> Status --- OK >> >> >> >> Hi John >> >> >> >> Can you put back on your web site both versions of the mezzanine board - >> so that people can see the original with the patch. I am not sure I am >> going to move up to the new mezzanine boards (probably will) but now there >> is no reference to the original board and the patches required to make it >> work. I think when you update web site you need to leave what was >> originally there and then add new sections (probably with revision number >> and/or date for new section) - not delete and replace - the same has >> happened with other boards. >> >> >> >> Dave >> >> On Wednesday, July 23, 2014 11:29:45 AM UTC-5, monahanz wrote: >> >> Yes Todd from Arrow. They are specked as 5V but the seem to work OK at >> 3.3V. >> >> John >> >> >> >> *From:* [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] *On >> Behalf Of *[email protected] >> *Sent:* Wednesday, July 23, 2014 6:26 AM >> *To:* [email protected] >> *Subject:* [N8VEM-S100:4675] Re: S-100-16M-SRAM-MEZZ-V6c Board - Status >> --- OK >> >> >> >> John - >> >> I assume this was with the CY62167ELL-45ZXI ram? >> >> Todd - >> >> Let the group know when you're ready to ship out a few! >> >> - Gary >> >> On Tuesday, July 22, 2014 9:09:44 PM UTC-4, monahanz wrote: >> >> Todd just a quick note to let you know the V06c version of the mezzanine >> boards checked out fine on the 16MG S100 RAM board. I hammered them >> fairly good with the 80386 board, they did fine. >> >> >> >> Soldering the chips on to the board is quite tricky. I found it best to >> aligen one corner, then orientate the chip and do the diagonally opposite >> corner, then run the salder tip along the pins. With a wet tip there is >> enough solder on the pins and the board for contact. However I had one >> chip where the pin did not make contact, took me a while to locate it. >> These boards are definatly not for anybody with shakey hands >> >> >> >> Will next do the 32MB 80386 board, but for now I feel confident sending >> them out to all 16MB board users. >> >> >> >> Thanks Andrew and Dave for all your help on these. >> >> >> >> >> >> John >> >> >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "N8VEM-S100" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to [email protected]. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >> > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "N8VEM-S100" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
