Mark-8 Minicomputer Kit on E-bay

From: Bill Sudbrink <wh.sudbrink_at_verizon.net>
Date: Wed Mar 12 10:26:00 2003

I was under the impression (based on previous classiccmp discussions) that
the only way to get the bare boards was to use the plans supplied in
<whichever magazine it was> to etch your own. So how would you define
original? Etched from the plans or etched from the plans within some
short period of time from the publication date? Or maybe etched from the
plans using materials produced at the time of publication? I have a couple
of really old Radio Shack board etching kits around somewhere. I'm sure
that I bought them before 1980. Could I turn them into gold by using them
to etch a couple of Mark-8 boards? ;-) (smiley for the humor impared)

> -----Original Message-----
> From: cctalk-admin_at_classiccmp.org [mailto:cctalk-admin_at_classiccmp.org]On
> Behalf Of Erik S. Klein
> Sent: Wednesday, March 12, 2003 10:26 AM
> To: cctalk_at_classiccmp.org
> Subject: RE: Mark-8 Minicomputer Kit on E-bay
>
>
> >It took a while for some guys on comp.os.cpm to catch on.
> >I lurk there now and then. I was not sure whether they
> >were trolling or truly unaware that there were no original
> >kits, but then someone else clued them in.
>
> Yeah, I guess the only thing that could be original would be the bare
> boards. Everything else would just have to be contemporary materials,
> at best.
>
> I'm still guessing that the buyer expected to be purchasing an antique,
> not a recent creation.
>
> Erik S. Klein
> www.vintage-computer.com
Received on Wed Mar 12 2003 - 10:26:00 GMT