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.