
3/31/86
Rob Horning

The 8 Mbyte board is passing all the tests.  I will check the film one last
time and them have them shoot the package and ship it to Photronics.

I have started to look into what it will take to get the Indigo channel
working and checking out the process of getting the system to start out of
EPROM.

I turned on the remaining Math boards.  There were three failures. Two where
workmanship and one was a bad connector.  I gave production feedback on these
problems.

I have started to work with Brian Sharpe to get a test going for the 25 ns
SRAM's.  They have a tester that can measure some of the timing parameters.
He expects to have a first pass of the test done by April 15.

Stantel plans to send me 50 samples of 25 ns 2k x 8 SRAM's about the end of
April.  I will put some of these in our system, send some to MTC to evaluate
and give some to Brian Sharpe and Cynthia Bott to evaluate.  By the end of
May we should have a better idea of how Cypress and Toshiba are doing and we
can decide if we want to qualify Stantel as a vendor for this part.

I am getting ready to have two 2 Mbyte memory boards built.  The purpose of
this build is to make sure that every thing is ready to build the 70 or 80
boards we need in May.  The last two boards were built about a year ago and
they have made a lot of changes in there system in the last year.  Once we
check out the MC-F and feel confident that the boards will work, I will have
the 80 boards built.  They can do this in a few days.

I checked the memory board and Math board material lists.  There are still a
few small errors, but nothing that would effect factory cost.

