12 Mar
2003
12 Mar
'03
11:19 a.m.
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(a)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