Board cost depends on quantity, the more you have made, the lower the per board cost.
PCBCart.com charges a "tooling" charge for a new design.  They do look 
over the designs carefully and reorders don't incur that charge.
To get an idea, I had a run of Joerg Hoppe's DEC Flip-Chip Extender Hex 
+5 boards made (http://retrocmp.com/tools/dec-flip-chip-extenders)
I had 20 made.  My total (board cost, share of tooling, share of 
shipping and share of customs at that time) per board cost is $42.60 
(I'm selling them for $42 as I didn't get the customs charge until later).
On 12/6/2021 7:21 PM, Guy Sotomayor via cctalk wrote:
I haven't priced anything out yet.  My current project will have reasonably large sized board but will be using DIN 41612 style connectors (so I don't need edge fingers).  I haven't gone to different board vendors yet to see what pricing will be yet (still settling on board size and number of layers...right now it looks like it'll be 4 layers).
On 12/6/21 3:50 PM, Mike Katz via cctalk wrote:
For other boards without gold fingers where would you recommend and how expensive for omnibus size boards?
On 12/6/2021 5:07 PM, Guy Sotomayor via cctalk wrote:
On 12/6/21 2:45 PM, Mike Katz via cctalk wrote:

If I may8 ask a question.  I have never had boards made before. How do I find a good board house that is reasonable and how do I specify the board especially for the PDP-8 Omnibus which should have gold fingers on the edge connectors?
Anything the size of an Omnibus board with gold fingers is *not* going to be "reasonable" especially if you want "hard gold" (which IMHO is the only way to go if you want reasonable life of the boards and sockets).
I've used Advanced Circuits for all my boards that needed gold 
fingers (they are *not* cheap...you've been warned).  When you 
submit your Gerber files, you also specify if you have edge fingers 
and how you want them plated.  I have been 100% satisfied with the 
boards that I've received from them.
TTFN - Guy


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