Well, as Murphy would have it, I spotted a potential artwork change after I had already submitted the PCB artwork to the fabricator.
It happened like this; in looking to add some helpful links to this project’s posts, I found that there was a (more) “bug-free” version of the MCS-BASIC. Some folks had taken the original INTEL MCS-BASIC V1.1. fixed some bugs and added support for more 80C5x flavours. They also added better support for using EEPROM to store user programs. Essentially, the change is this; MCS-BASIC V1.10 used P1.4 as a “program pulse” that strobe’d the EEPROM’s WR line. The newer V1.31 does away with using P1.4 and uses the 8052’s WR line directly. Since I had room on the PCB for a 3-pin BERG-STIK, I thought I would slip in the ability to jumper the EEPROM’s WR line to either the 8052’S WR line or the P1.4 line.
I made the change and post-processed the files in a matter of 45 minutes and submitted the new files. Hopefully, I submitted them in time so as to take effect. I could make the change with some trace-cutting but I’d rather not.
For those of you interested in this project, I have ten (10) PCB’s on order but I will not use all of them. I am considering making them available on TINDIE.
8052 Single Board Computer 
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