Archive of the former Yahoo!Groups mailing list: MOTM

I'm sure you've all read of John Simonton's passing. Very sad year for us. I
∗loved∗ reading Polyphony magazine. Although I never personally bought his synth
modules, I did ∗repair∗ lots of them :)

Paul H. will begin shipping MOTM kits tomorrow. He has quite a pile! Remember,
you still ∗can order∗ anytime (even Christmas Day) and maybe we can sneak in
your order. We are getting low on some panels and that will be the factor in
getting your module or not. I've just received over 450 pc boards (those suckers
are heavy!) so we have lots of those. Note that the pc boards are now
RoHS-compliant, they look ∗slightly∗ different but you can use the solder you
have without any problems. There is 1 issue: you have 6 months to build your
boards after receiving them. Else some oxidation will occur. So, don't stick
them in a closet and forget about them!

The push is to ship assembled backlog now. All design is on hold until Jan. As
of today, there are (gulp) 93 modules on the assembled backlog, and these do NOT
include '650s. As far as "good" news goes, all but 22 of these have assembled
and tested pc boards made and sitting in the store room. I ping-pong between
shipping these out and soldering on the 22 left. I think I can get all of these
out by the end of the year. I want to start 2006 with a 'clean slate'. These
last 3 months have been an emotional rollercoaster and some days tougher to
focus on MOTM than others.

Everyone hold off on the "where's my stuff' emails until Dec. 5th. If you are
missing a kit, paid or freebie, then ping me after Dec. 5th.

OK, back to work!

Paul S.