Production Timeline

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Pandora Production Timeline

Please feel free to either contribute on the talk page, or update here. I am adding some milestones which I can't easily track down the dates for - hopefully others will have bookmarked key forum posts, etc.

2007

December: Pandora section in GP32X forums opened

2008

September 30: 3000 units were made available for pre-order, resulting in server overload and crashes.

??? : Pre-order extended to 4000 units.

2009

Pre-ordering re-opened to fill places freed up after the great banking event. Only cash/bank transfer payments were accepted, no credit payments.

Prototype caseworks received.

Populated PCBs shown off.

2010

May 22: First shipments start[1]. Helpers on the production line seem to have been paid in pandora, first one here[2]. By June 25th, the parts which arrived in the first shipment were exhausted, with approximately 400 shipped to GBAX customers, and 200 to EvilDragon's customers in mainland Europe. Some 50 odd units shopped with only one fully working nub (to pre-orderers who skipped the queue), and a further 7 were auctioned on Ebay by Craig for £xxx. These shipments went to people who pre-ordered in the first 1.5 hours (roughly). The highest price on ebay for one of these first ~600 units was ~$1600???