The LiNC80 SBC1 has officially launched!

[Jon Langseth]

I announce that as of now, the LiNC80 SBC1 microcomputer kit is available for purchase at Tindie! And whith that, I also welcome you to join this group, the official support and community channel for the LiNC80 SBC1 and related products and developments.

The LiNC80 SBC1 is an 8-bit microcomputer kit, featuring a Z80 processor, a simple yet full-featured design that’s expandable. It features 64KBytes of RAM on-board, SIO/2 providing two serial ports for terminals and communication, dual 8-bit I/O via PIO and a CTC timer for SIO/2 clocking and general-purpose use. An IDE connector is built in to the design, allowing easy connection of an IDE-CF adapter and CP/M goodness.

* Available as Kit or as bare PCB

* Z80 CPU

* Feature rich SCMon ROM Monitor with online assembler and disassembler

* BASIC interpreter in ROM

* Zilog SIO/2 serial port controller with dual serial ports

* Zilog CTC for four channels of Counter/Timer, 2 of them dedicated to the SIO/2

* Zilog PIO for two Parallel ports

* Memory map designed to allow for banked expansion

* For fun, option of a dedicated ROM Cartridge connector

* ROM part of memory from address $0000 disable-able

* 64KBytes of RAM on-board, expandable via bank-switching

* 32KBytes of ROM in 2 16K bank pages, bank-switching available both on-board and via expansion

* Expandable system through Z50Bus

* CP/M compatibility

* Z80 Interrupt Mode 2 in the core

The product listing for KIT is at:

https://www.tindie.com/products/linc/linc80-sbc1-homebrew-z80-computer-kit/

The product listing for bare PCB is at:

https://www.tindie.com/products/linc/linc80-sbc1-pcb-only-homebrew-microcomputer/

[Steve Cousins]

Well done Jon.

I'm sure it will be well received.

Steve

[Jon Langseth]

A quick notification: I am working on setting up sensible Options to make ordering simpler, and shipping costs lower.
These should be completed today, in the early evening hours CEST at the latest.

[Jon Langseth]

On Friday, May 4, 2018 at 11:51:54 AM UTC+2, Jon Langseth wrote:

A quick notification: I am working on setting up sensible Options to make ordering simpler, and shipping costs lower.
These should be completed today, in the early evening hours CEST at the latest.

Completing the change to options on the product listing made a surge of orders come in, more than I expected.

So I feel that I need to inform the group that I'm actually now running out of stock, with 3 kits, 4 bare PCB's, two backplanes and none of the prototyping kits or adapter cards remaining. 

Unfortunately I have a bit of lead-time on getting more stock in, so I must apologize to those who will have to wait 2-3 weeks for the next shipping opportunity. 

[Jon Langseth]

So I feel that I need to inform the group that I'm actually now running out of stock, with 3 kits, 4 bare PCB's, two backplanes and none of the prototyping kits or adapter cards remaining. 

Unfortunately I have a bit of lead-time on getting more stock in, so I must apologize to those who will have to wait 2-3 weeks for the next shipping opportunity. 

Some stock has arrived, I have parts coming in on 2-week intervals at the moment, and will have the "pace" increase when Tindie releases the funds from the first set of orders.