I don’t think your Heathkit is in the spirit of what we are doing. We are looking for work-alikes. Not reproductions or modern add-on boards that will work on the original and reproductions. This is why we are looking at things like the PiDP, replica-1, Kim-uno and Briel Altair. All of these replace major components or just about all components with modern micro controllers or ICs but provide the vintage software experience. I call these “work-alikes” the gateway drugs into our hobby. It’s the first step many newbies take after they download an emulator. Cheers, Corey corey cohen uǝɥoɔ ʎǝɹoɔ Sent from my iPhone
On May 23, 2019, at 5:33 PM, Glenn Roberts via vcf-midatlantic <vcf-midatlantic@lists.vcfed.org> wrote:
The designs, bills of material and instructions are openly available, primarily at
http://sebhc.lesbird.com/pcbs/pcbs.html
and
http://koyado.com/Heathkit/Welcome.html
the group coordinates via a Google Group:
https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/sebhc
occasionally we order "batches" of boards but nobody has productized these as kits, at least not yet ...
-Glenn
-----Original Message----- From: vcf-midatlantic <vcf-midatlantic-bounces@lists.vcfed.org> On Behalf Of Evan Koblentz via vcf-midatlantic Sent: Thursday, May 23, 2019 3:10 PM To: 'vcf-midatlantic' <vcf-midatlantic@lists.vcfed.org> Cc: Evan Koblentz <evan@vcfed.org> Subject: Re: [vcf-midatlantic] Maker Faire this year
Would it be of interest to show a Heathkit replica? We've basically developed modern equivalents (and upgrades) for all of the Heathkit H8 and H89 computer boards. We've added solid state storage, USB capability, real time clock, 10 Mhz Z80, etc... I had mine on display at Alex Bodnar's booth at VCF east (the one on the left is my replica; on the right is Alex's original) TBD. For this exhibit, we prefer to show things that people can buy and make themselves. Is yours a kit or a one-time project?