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Old 21st Mar 2021, 1:41 pm   #197
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Default Re: I found it! A very sorry looking MK14.

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Originally Posted by Timbucus View Post
MK14 Man has an original (photo attached) and Martin Lukasec did a repro Board - I have all the components to build one here but, as yet no board. As you say a bit of a curiosity due to the difficulty of getting the 571 PROMS.
Thanks for info - particularly the good top-side photo.

I see the repro one has double-side tracking, with quite a bit each side. Whereas the original one only has a few top-side wire-links.
So I would have thought that it would have been easier to go for a single-sided PCB that was originally used for minimal cost / could probably do one at home without the silkscreen - especially if there's a photo if the original PCB's underside tracking (although should be able to work out something similar, from component positions)

I recall seeing VDU boards being around (and info for a replica one?)

But I've not seen much about the cassette interface. It's simply enough to knock-up on a bit of veroboard, but would be nice to have somethng a bit closer to the original, so any details on these would be useful).
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