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From: koopman@a.gp.cs.cmu.edu (Philip Koopman)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.forth
Subject: RTX Contest Entry Forms
Message-ID: <7844@pt.cs.cmu.edu>
Date: 5 Feb 90 16:50:29 GMT
Organization: Carnegie-Mellon University, CS/RI
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According to a well-informed source within Harris,
the contest entry kits have been sent to a mailing
house, and are in the mail even as I type.  Expect
to see your entry kit within 2 weeks if you sent
your name in to Harris before mid-January (with
other kits to follow with a 1-3 week time lag
between request and mailing of the kit).  I do not
yet have a date when actual boards will be sent
out to selected entries, but it shouldn't be too far off.

I have exercised a prototype of the contest board,
and it seems to be a reasonable environment.  It is
skimpy on RAM (3K bytes free), so plan to add some memory
if you want to do a lot of software.  I recommend
a pair of 32K x 8 SRAM chips with 55 ns or faster
access.  The board documentation comes with schematics
for memory expansion.  Get your wire-wrap guns (or
soldering irons) warmed up!

  Phil Koopman                koopman@greyhound.ece.cmu.edu   Arpanet
  2525A Wexford Run Rd.
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Senior Scientist at Harris Semiconductor, adjunct professor at CMU.
I don't speak for them, and they don't speak for me.