MOTM

I don't want to say more before plans firm up, but several of us are talking
with a goal to setting up a service for MOTM diyers, which provides high
quality silkscreened front panels. You may be sure that the Time Machine
will be one of the first available, cause I have one on order myself<g>!

Don't ask me about prices just yet. We have to come up with a fair way of
recovering the cost of the original screen over time, based on estimating
how popular a panel might be, etc. Probably would have to set up a web page
somewhere, showcasing all the available designs.

Please note, just having a nice front panel is NOT going to turn your
project into a MOTM kit! There will typically be other hurdles in
construction and/or electronics mods to fit a Blacet or whatever other
design into the MOTM format.

Dave Bradley
Principal Software Engineer
Engineering Animation, Inc.
daveb@...

> -----Original Message-----
> From: jwbarlow@... [mailto:jwbarlow@...]
> Sent: Monday, June 19, 2000 8:31 PM
> To: motm@egroups.com
> Subject: Re: [motm] My MOTM DarkStar - (was Blacet-MOTM adaptor)
>
>
> Hey Moe! I think your panel looks great! I'd like to hear more
> about how this
> process is going. Will this "service" be available to other MOTM listers?
> Roughly how much will this be costing you per panel?
>
> As for John Blacet's idea of the "panel in a panel," at first I
> though it was
> kind of neat, but not the way I'd go. Then I realized that it
> would still be
> a good idea.
>
> Suppose one was to get a Blacet module which doesn't have (nor
> will likely
> ever have) a close MOTM cousin like the Time Machine VC BBD
> module. It seems
> to me that both a Blacet kit and a MOTM kit take about the same amount of
> time to assemble, but if there are no MOTM size front panels
> available for
> this module, one needs to diy one of these -- which would take a
> long time.
> So as a short term solution to this problem, the Blacet/MOTM
> adapters would
> be great -- I'd probably get a couple of them for the temporary solution.
> MOTM-Blacet Time Machine, hmmm......
>
> JB
>