Mark-8 Minicomputer Kit on E-bay

From: Vintage Computer Festival <vcf_at_siconic.com>
Date: Wed Mar 12 10:33:01 2003

On Wed, 12 Mar 2003, Erik S. Klein wrote:

> >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.

At $880 I would *hope* I was buying an original. That is just scathingly
obscene for a modern day replica kit.

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