On Thu, Sep 3, 2015 at 10:24 AM, Philipp Hachtmann <hac...@hachti.de> wrote: > As my board supplier has doubled (It was so cheap before..!) the price for > gold plated contact PCBs,
If you don't mind sharing, which supplier is it? Is the connector plating hard gold over nickel? How many microns (or micro-inches) of each? Many of the PCB fab companies I've queried either won't do hard gold at all, or not for short runs, or charge a fortune. I intent to make some short-run boards for the Apple II and Intel Multibus in the not too distant future, and while a non-gold edge connector is OK for one or two prototypes, it's not satisfactory for general use.
