Another possible round of partial SBC6120 & FP6120 Kits!

Hey folks, I'm forwarding this message from the Spartime Gizmos mailing list because I think there may be some interest here. Steve Gibson is trying to assess interest in doing another run of Sparetime Gizmos' PDP-8 clone, the SBC6120. This is a big job. The kit would include all the custom parts for both the SBC6120 single board computer and the (excellent, IMHO) FP6120 front panel kit. If you missed out on the last round of this kit, now would be a very good time to express interest in getting another run done. Read the message below for details and the URL where you can register. -Seth -------- Original Message -------- Subject: [sparetimegizmos] Another possible round of partial SBC6120 & FP6120 Kits! Date: Wed, 13 Jan 2010 14:23:02 -0800 From: Steve Gibson <sparetimegizmos at grc.com> Reply-To: sparetimegizmos at yahoogroups.com To: sparetimegizmos at yahoogroups.com References: <hih47u+3ash at eGroups.com> <hijlf8+hva1 at eGroups.com> Everyone... I have been coordinating with Bob Armstrong about the possibility of another round of combined SBC6120/FP6120 kits. If sufficient interest can be generated -- at least 50 purchasers -- Bob has agreed to produce another round of kits containing all of the special, custom & programmed bits required to assemble the combination of an SBC6120 and FP6120. My web site's tribute to the PDP-8 consists of eight pages, the last one of which explains the details of the kits and provides a web-form for allowing interested people to declare their interest. A few minutes ago I announced the existence of the kits during my weekly Security Now podcast recording. The podcast goes live tomorrow (Thursday), when we'll have an audience of about 80,000. But a few thousand listeners watch the recording live ... and we immediately received several declarations of interest. If anyone here in this group was wishing they were able to obtain additional kit(s), I'm quite hopeful that there might be enough interest remaining for us to squeeze out another round. Here's the page... http://www.grc.com/pdp-8/yourown-sbc.htm And if by some chance you are not familiar with these terrific kits, other pages in that area, linked at the bottom of that page, contain videos to give you a good idea of the final product. :) Steve Gibson.