James Gessling wrote:
I'd build it for sure. The journey is the
reward.
The problem is that it makes very little economic sense. I'd rather get
So? Very little that we do with classic computers makes economic sense.
Does it make economic sense for me to spend 6 months working out how to
repair a scientific calculator when I could buy a 'better' one in the
local supermarket for 5 quid? I did just that a few years back (the fact
that the calculator in question was the HP9100 might have something to do
with why I did it ;-))
an assembled heathkit for much less money and take it
apart and put it
back together again repeatedly until I know it forwards and backwards.
Desoldering components from PCBs is not something I would want to do for
fun. Sure I do it all the time for repair. And then there are wires that
will have been cut to length, component leads that have been trimmed,
etc. I don;t think you _could_ disassemble a Heathkit (or anything like
that) back to the origianl state.
And there;s one other reason. I hate to see machines that are not given
the chance to run. A box of bits doesn't interest me at all. [The same
view was mentioned by a chap called Eric Smith (not the one here :-)) in
a boot on clock repairing. Clock enthusiasts hate the idea of clocks that
aren't given the chance to run]
-tony