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Did they say how many they built total? Was this 60ish boards out of 100, 600, 6000?

He started selling Floppy Emus in 2014[1], bought a run of 10,000 DB-19 connectors in 2016[2], mentioned that he sold "several thousand" in 2021[1], and decided he no longer needed to horde as many DB-19s as he had held onto in 2025[3]. So based on all if that, probably somewhere between 4,000-8,000? (One of which is currently on my desk for connecting to an Apple IIe I recently acquired.)

[1]: https://www.bigmessowires.com/2022/02/16/bmow-business-updat...

[2]: https://www.bigmessowires.com/2016/06/04/db-19-resurrecting-...

[3]: https://www.bigmessowires.com/2025/06/30/bulk-lots-of-db-19s...

> Every time I ask a contract manufacturer to assemble a batch of more Floppy Emus, there are always a few that don’t pass QA testing.

It seems like this would still be 60 out of a number less than the total production over all time. I was just curious what the failure rate was. We recently had a build with one failure out of 500. Which I'm happy with but isn't that large a sample size.

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