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Originally Posted by SiriusHardware
There was actually an official branded / badged MK14 power supply, someone here, possibly Gertk64 (who has not been around for a while) had one. As we all built the machines ourselves we were a resourceful lot and generally already had something suitable, so I doubt whether many of the official ones were sold.
The 'real thing' was just the usual mains transformer / bridge / smoothing capacitor, nothing special, but I bet if one came up for sale it would go well up into the tens of pounds as long as it had its Science of Cambridge label present and intact.
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They do give a 8V 600mA spec for it, in the add shown here:
http://theoddys.com/acorn/Acorn%20Sy...4%20Advert.jpg
But unfortunately there's not a good view of a label, to make a replica.
The original PSU's for equipment often seem to get lost / thrown out - especially ones with moulded DC plugs when the wire gets bent too much and breaks, although this one must have had to be hard-wired. So can add to the rarity. Back then, I did gut a Commodore LED calculator one that always buzzed-loudly to reuse the case I've still got - which does look quite similar to the MK14 one.