NOS Bare Boards: What to do?

From: Marvin <marvin_at_rain.org>
Date: Sun Apr 12 11:33:34 1998

Jeff Kaneko wrote:

> Guys:
>
> Ok, I'm putting this up, and looking for opinions:
>
> I have a NOS SwTPc 6800 MP-A CPU board. This was the first SS-50
> 6800 CPU available, and only the second 6800 CPU board of any stripe
> available from anyone AFAIK (Moto was first, of course).
>
> Here's the wrinkle: It's an unbuilt, BARE board. Given the somewhat
> historic nature of this article, what would you do? Build it as
> originally designed (most of the parts are still available), or
> leave the board blank, as is?

I have several unbuilt boards including an IMSAI SIO and the National SCMP
microprocessor evaluation kits. For my part, I have no intention of ever
building them since I view them as a part of history. I tried about a year
ago to get an unbuilt Heatkit H?? computer that was designed to go into (I
think) an H19? terminal. He decided to allow his class to build it <sigh>
but we all have different reasons for doing things.
Received on Sun Apr 12 1998 - 11:33:34 BST