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From: Alex Harford<alex@a...>
Date: Fri May 14 23:42:08 CEST 2004
Subject: [oc] One issue about free hardware
On Sat, May 15, 2004 at 08:52:40AM +1200, Erez Birenzwig wrote:
> The second part to this is that you have to buy a development board, which
> usually
> cost some money, which is exactly the money most people don't want to spend.
> And if you want to actually use it for something, you'll have to buy another
> one,
> and so on. You can't just keep the result on the hard drive and use it when
> you feel like it.
>

Devel boards are getting cheaper, into the range affordable to university
students and hobbyists.

Please excuse the url wrapping:
http://www.em.avnet.com/evk/home/0,1719,RID%253D0%2526CID%253D7816%2526CCD%253DUSA%2526SID%253D4746%2526DID%253DDF2%2526SRT%253D1%2526LID%253D4746%2526PVW%253D%2526BID%253DDF2%2526CTP%253DEVK,00.html

$499 USD for a board with 1.5M gates, PCI connector, VGA hardware, etc.

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Alex Harford
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