24 Oct
2015
24 Oct
'15
7:19 a.m.
The UK is full of small companies making and repairing
all kinds of past
products.
For example the MGB GT (a much loved British sports car). The factory
stopped making them in the early 1980's
However a few guys bought the press tools and have been turning out two
or three body shells a day ever since.
Copy of a Shelby Cobra - no problem build from a kit. GT40 clone oh yes!
Be careful... On this list a GT40 comes from DEC and not Ford :-)
But as I understand it, those reproduction cars have reproduced bodywork
on top of modern mechnanicals. The engine, for example, is not a copy of
the original, it's a current-production car engine, complete with electronic
engine management and thus without the reason I would want a classic
car in the first place!
It's like a lot of the reproduction computers discussed here and elsewhere. They
look the same, the run the same programs, but no way _are_ they the same. An
RPi (or Beaglebone, or...) running an emulator is not a PDP11/70.
And as a hardware hacker, a machine I can't stick my logic analyser on is of little
interest
-tony