Mark-8 Minicomputer Kit on E-bay

From: Robert Borsuk <rborsuk_at_colourfull.com>
Date: Wed Mar 12 11:19:01 2003

So 25 year old PCB's make something "original"? Your definition and
mine are really different then. If it's built according to the plans
then it's original. Period. If you through a GAL on there and a couple
6116's then no - not original

Rob Borsuk
rborsuk_at_colourfull.com


On Wednesday, March 12, 2003, at 12:02 PM, Erik S. Klein wrote:

> In 1974 you could order the "kit" from Radio Electronics (actually from
> Jon Titus) which consisted of the bare boards, a parts list and some
> brief instructions on how to turn it all into a computer. The article
> in RE was descriptive but not enough so that you could build a computer
> from that and the board layouts.
>
> A machine built using those original boards would be "original" and one
> built using the identical, but newer, reproduction boards is not
> original (although it would be just as much fun). Anyone selling the
> latter as the former is perpetrating a fraud.
>
> Erik S. Klein
Received on Wed Mar 12 2003 - 11:19:01 GMT