On Sat, Jan 05, 2013 at 04:56:32PM -0800, Dieter BSD wrote: > >>> How does everyone feel about the > >>> Milkmist One as a first standard development platform? > >> > >> We already have a first standard development platform, > >> the OGD1. > > > > Please ship me one then, or tell me what 'buy now' link to > > click. > > http://www.traversaltech.com/store.phtml > (That URL probably doesn't work anymore, OGC website is still down > so I can't look for current URL.) > > >>> It's $799 USD, > > $750.00 for OGD1. There were still boards in stock as of June 2011. > > If the stock is exhausted and there is demand for more, someone > can get more built. It is open hardware right? All the info you > need to build one is supposed to be available, right?
So are you offering to build me one for $800? > > A lot of work went into designing those boards and getting them > built. Are we going to just throw all that work away? Yes, because I can get a xc6slx45T part and have PCI-express support, and maybe even DDR3 ram without a lot of work. No, because I just synthesized and produced a bitstream for the OGD-1 that would fit on an LX25 part. I'm not really interested in paying $800 for something that requires a PCI port I don't have. Now if there is some old stock, I'd be interested in acquiring it cheap. Why do you say 'throwing it away' like it's a bad thing? We all learned a lot from building something and throwing it away, and the general public has access to HDL code that we can all look at. That's a hell of a lot better deal than the hardware that's sitting in my scrap pile from 10 years ago that I'm going to have to throw away because I don't have any schematics for it. _______________________________________________ Open-graphics mailing list [email protected] http://lists.duskglow.com/mailman/listinfo/open-graphics List service provided by Duskglow Consulting, LLC (www.duskglow.com)
