I have a few of these and enjoy them — the PDP-8 (emulated: PiDP-8), Altair 8800 (emulated: Altair-Duino), KIM-1 (more or less the real deal modulo the 6530 RIOT chips that are no longer available: PAL-1 and PAL-2).<p>These, as kits, are fun to assemble, fun then to play around with.
Old mini-computers, one of my favourite topics! Obligatory plug for doing achieving something similar today on a budget <a href="https://rodyne.com/?p=1751" rel="nofollow">https://rodyne.com/?p=1751</a> discussed here <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42672366">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42672366</a>
My interest lies in the VAX 11/780 running VMS. I once had one running in my janky old smartphone via Termux/SimH, but I lost it when I upgraded Termux, not realizing that it would delete all my stuff in the process. (Android is weird about files)
I may be alone in craving an AN/UYK-7.<p><a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/AN/UYK-7" rel="nofollow">https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/AN/UYK-7</a>
Obsolescence Guaranteed Is a good name for a replica retro computer store.<p>If I ever retire and run a bar on the beach^w^w^w^w retro computer store, that’s what it’ll be called.