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From Retro Thing:
Robin writes, "I attended the Vintage Computer Fair in Bletchley Park, England this weekend. Colin Phillips has rebuilt a Sinclair Mk14 with the prospect of them being for sale later in the year. I think this is great news well worth sharing!"
Introduced in 1978 at the stunning price of £39.95, the Science of Cambridge Mk14 kit was Sir Clive Sinclair's first foray into the world of personal computing. Built around a National Semiconductor SC/MP process, the little single board machine included 256 bytes of RAM, 512 bytes of ROM, a smattering of I/O ports and (initially) a hideous touch sensitive keyboard. Despite its limitations, over 50,000 MK14 boards were sold in five different revisions. Mercifully, a mechanical keyboard was added to later boards.
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