Ideal VCO for mass production

[tomg]

>I think the
> first thing i would like to put out is a decent VCO. Tom G has been very
> good
> to all of us with his efforts, and with his permission, I would like to
> put one of his VCO's into commmercial production. 

If there is enough interest I would be glad to do a dual vco board for
the list. I would do a 3046 heater thing (from the start this time I'm
much better than I was just 90 days ago) with all the outputs/inputs 
we can think of. If there is enough interest I'll be happy to do boards 
for just about anything (even the scanner...;-).

Boards are not that expensive but they are a $500+ dollar investment. 
I can have a run of 50 boards 300 holes made for about $11.00 each. 
Through in some s&h put the docs on line and they should be $15 bucks. 
If I can sell all 50. Here is the problem. I don't know if I could sell all
50. 
I can only count on selling 20-30 so I have to add the cost of unsold 
boards to the pile. So just about any board would be in the $20 range.

There are really only about 50 people on the list that are interested
in pcbs at all. You can't count on selling everything to all 50 all the
time. The others do their own or don't do at all.

I plan to offer the M5 as soon as it's done. I'm hoping to make a synth
everyone would want, be easy to assemble and use. Something in
a 2600/ms20/sys100 mode. I am putting up designs now that are under
consideration so if you're building as we go you'll have one before
anybody else....;-) Anyway the 2 board set will be in the $40-50 range
and would probably save a lot of money over a bunch of $20 boards.

But whatever, if you want a new vco board I'll start taking orders. As
soon as I get a promise for 20 I'll have them produced. This would
work the same way for most any board you want.

Talk it over. Whatever you guys want we can make. You could even
take on the M5 project and determine specs then everybody would
be happy when it's ready. I'm flexible. 

btw I am in total agreement with Jurgen. If anybody makes money on 
one of my designs I want my cut...;-)

-tg