21 Jun
2010
21 Jun
'10
1:05 p.m.
On Jun 21, 2010, at 12:47 PM, Tony Duell wrote:
That is basically how I feel to. If I didn't want
to assemble it myself,
I'd buy a ready-built <foo>, The point of buying the kit is to have some
fun putting it together (which is a relaxation for me). And SMD work is
not that difficult.
It's unlikely I would consider any such kit to be
a sensible use of money
at the moment, alas...
It is worth noting that Dave and I's experience is that the people who want the P112
kits typically don't want to diddle with SMD components. Not everybody is comfortable
with SMD parts (I'm not, and I've been building kits for 30 years), and the P112
was designed to be a painless introduction to kit computers. Many of our customers had
built the P112 as their first kit, or at least their first kit since the days RadioShack
sold.. radios.
P112 is a great introduction to retrocomputing at a low cost of entry (both financial and
in assembly skill). That's it's strength, not it's weakness. Speaking for
myself, I don't think Dave should change that.