Grant Stockly wrote:
Someone built one of my Altair replica PCBs and went to great lengths to
make sure the date code on the ICs was older than 1975. They also
sourced the old brown cylindrical resistors.
I provide the exact same parts that were on the
origional BOM, but don't
try to match date codes! : )
I guess everyone has their own idea of what is vintage
enough.
I draw the line at Vintage smoke. Since most people want to run
a classic computer first rather display it I think the stuff on the BOM
is fine.