Mesa Suppliers

Mesa 7i96S with 7i85 and 7i83 should do just fine and can be easily found.
5 stepgens, 4 analog outs, 4 encoders, 4+1 SSerials for more whatever you might need and a 0-10V spindle output with it's own encoder.

A 7I95T + 7I83 is another option for Analog servo control,

We should have a few 7I97Ts soon if I didn't have any
major screw ups on the proto.

Both of you bring up interesting solutions I hadn't considered... I've used the 5I25/7I77 in the past very successfully, so I was naturally leaning that way.  It looks like to me the 7I97T will be very close to what I have used in the past.  Can the step-gen ports on the 7I95 and others be repurposed?  It seems to me that while a 7I96+7I85+7I83 will get me all the things I need, it also has items that are of no use to me (step-gen) and ends up more expensive than a 5i25/7I77 plug-n-go kit.  Are there benefits to the ethernet ports above and beyond using a PCI port? Apologies for the simple questions, my last retrofit was many years ago.

Mesa 5i25/7i77 or 7i97T are hard to find.

Are there any suppliers in australasia.
I tried emailing the NZ supplier that was mentioned on the Mesa site but that bounced as did the one in VN. The member here, JT, seemed to be selling boards but he has not been here in months and there is no contact details in his bio. 
I ask because postage will cost more than the boards which seems insane. I have a 30Kg parcel coming from Europe and the postage for that is less than 2 small boards.
Mike

JT is in USA and www.mesaus.com
PCW is in USA and www.mesanet.com
In portugal www.eusurplus.com i have bought almost all Mesa stuff from them as i am in Europe, ships with DHL
and www.welectron.com is in Germany