Re: How times have changed...

Sean Adams wrote:
> I have stacks of photos here of earlier Slim prototypes... was planning
> to scan them all in and make a Slim Museum. :)

I'd like to see that.

> The one in that photo is the first of two wire wrapped prototypes.  It was
> a different design from the current model - used a $65 FIFO chip and pair
> of PIC microcontrollers (too expesnsive). There was a second board on the
> back which had the MPEG decoder and DAC. Max data rate was 128Kbps.

$65? Ow. How much cheaper is it with a RAM chip and a CPLD?

> After that, there were about four more board revisions over the course of
> a year, before the production model was ready...
> 
> Here's the original Slim Device:
> 
> http://www.seanadams.com/sketch/
> 
> It's collecting dust in the garage right now, but I'll get it online again
> some day....  :)

Add a SlimDimm (BTW, when will those be ready?), shouldn't be too much
of a problem... :-)

- Jacob

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