<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">Great milestone! Congratulations!</span><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Oct 8, 2011 at 4:21 AM, Boudewijn <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:wankelwankel@yahoo.com">wankelwankel@yahoo.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;"><div class="im">On Friday 07 October 2011 21:57:04 Dr. H. Nikolaus Schaller wrote:<br>
> I am happy to announce that almost all of the produced GTA04EA boards<br>
> have passed the tests and are ready to ship on Monday!<br>
</div>Whohooo! Congratulations :-D<br>
<br>
<br>
> After two long days of trying everything (..) it turned<br>
> out (...) mute<br>
> the PCM voice channel<br>
The headaches!<br>
<div class="im"><br>
> Now everything appears to work well enough that we<br>
> don't expect that you have to send the unit back on the next day :)<br>
</div>I guess you'll have to pry it from my co.... well, anyway, I won't let go of<br>
it once it arrives ;-)<br>
<div class="im"><br>
<br>
> Thanks again for your patience and encouragement! Without<br>
> knowing that you are out there eagerly waiting for a new<br>
> powerful and state of the art motherboard for the GTA02<br>
> system, it would have been much easier to give up and buy<br>
> some <insert brand> and try to port Linux onto it. And have in<br>
> approx. 2 years just 95% working :)<br>
><br>
> But now we know all details of the design and there will be<br>
> plenty of documentation of every GPIO line.<br>
><br>
> So what will come after we have shipped the EA boards?<br>
><br>
> We will start to make a new GTA04A4 layout to fix the hardware<br>
> bugs, without having to cut traces and add small wires which is<br>
> very expensive in production. And, we will ask for quotations<br>
> for PCBs, components, production etc. As soon as we have that,<br>
> we can finally annouce price and timing and start to accept<br>
> preorders for the next batch.<br>
<br>
</div>Thanks again for your perseverance and detailed updates, it surely felt more<br>
like an interactive journey than a wait.<br>
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Boudewijn<br>
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