Compucolor items on eBay

From: Vintage Computer Festival <vcf_at_siconic.com>
Date: Tue Aug 3 01:06:49 2004

On Tue, 3 Aug 2004, Tony Duell wrote:

> > Yes, I met a former engineer from Exidy who explained that story. He said
> > they scored something like 10,000 empty 8-track shell casings when
> > 8-track tapes were on their way out in the late 1970s. They hired a kid
> > to router out the interior and then the PCBs were set in place.
>
> The couple I have look more like they were done with a hacksaw and file.
> Well done they are not!

Are they actual Exidy carts or some homebrew units? They were hard to
homebrew.

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