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themadhippy
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Bit of thread necromancy https://pro.maplin.co.uk/ https://www.switchelectronics.co.uk/ similar?    

mnorwood
mnorwood

To me it seems like the Maplin branding has been sub-licensed to Switch Electronics for the purpose of selling to the "Professional" market. There exists https://www.maplin.co.uk which doesn't sh

Ynot
Ynot

Surely that is down to what the customer wants, regardless of pricing differences. If both/all slightly differing product specs cost the same to them to buy in and sell on, then what's the proble

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On 10/22/2023 at 12:36 AM, Ynot said:

ETI, anyone?

Definitely ETI, and before that Everyday Electronics, Practical Wireless, Practical Electronics and Elektor - one of my friends was a real Elektor devotee, and a different one built the ETI Trident 8080 home computer. Come to think of it, a different one again built a UK101 - wasn't that a PW project?

Edit: Practical Electronics ran the UK101

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28 minutes ago, alistermorton said:

Definitely ETI, and before that Everyday Electronics, Practical Wireless, Practical Electronics and Elektor - one of my friends was a real Elektor devotee, and a different one built the ETI Trident 8080 home computer. Come to think of it, a different one again built a UK101 - wasn't that a PW project?

Edit: Practical Electronics ran the UK101

I built a UK101. 6502 microprocesor running at 1MHz( could be persuaded to run at 2MHz). 1KByte of ram (expandable to 8K on board) 2K Byte of Video RAM.... Around 2,000 solder joints IIRC.

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