I hope they have it cleared up soon too. I plan to order one of the
CATS.

Colin


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Colin MacKenzie (http://www.silicon.ns.ca)
Programmer / Network Administrator (HMC Group Inc)

"Computers are incredibly fast, accurate, and stupid.
People are incredibly, slow, inaccurate, and brilliant.
Together, they are just incredible"
Albert Einstein

-----Original Message-----
From: Todd Whitesel [mailto:toddpw@best.com]
Sent: Wednesday, August 05, 1998 7:05 AM
To: eugenio.sanchez@avantel.com.mx
Cc: port-arm32@netbsd.org
Subject: Re: ARM system in the Americas?


> I'm wondering where can I get an ARM system in the Americas, pre-
> ferably with a StrongARM CPU (I live in Mexico, but I can get obtain

If you want something actually manufactured in N.America I think your
only option is the Netwinder. It is really an overgrown set-top box, but
it does give you a pretty good SA-110 based 'toaster' configuration for
$700-$1300. However its idea of expansion is a PC-style parallel port.

> stuff offered in the US). I talked like a month ago with the people
> from ChalTech and faxed an order of a CATS board, but I still haven't
> got a response... :-(

Apparently ChalTech policy is to only contact you if there is something
you can fix -- it seems that the latest batch of CATS boards was held up
until about now for various reasons. I just got off the phone with
SimTec
(one of ChalTech's parent companies, they do the actual shipping) and if
the certified SDRAM DIMM's arrive in a day or so as they are expected
to,
then the boards will be shipped later this week. (I think I am repeating
this correctly; someone associated with ChalTech please correct me if
not.)

This is great news for me, as I faxed an order to them only last week,
and
thought I would be waiting longer. I've already had a few people at work
ask me when they might be able to play with it.

Todd Whitesel
toddpw @ best.com