As you'll have seen from the rest of this website, my initial objective in doing this project was to recreate my own personal copy of a much missed first computer. However, my kids have been perstering me for one each, which inspired me to make a PIC based real-time software emulator version (see home page main photo - more details coming soon). I've also had a steady stream of enquiries via this website from fellow retro-computing enthusiasts,
So, I'm going to be making a batch of the PIC based units, and will probably make some more of the original SC/MP based ones too. Availability is likely to be Autumn 2010, with pricing to be determined once I have a better idea of the production costs involved. I'll post more information (including pricing) as this firms up. If you're interested, please drop me a line so I can put you on a pre-order list.
IPR I make my living through the IPR of the ideas and designs I come up with, so I take IPR extremely seriously. For the MK14 hardware, any industrial design or trademark protection that may have applied originally (and I'm not aware of any) will now have expired. For the monitor software, the situation is less clear. There are no copyright statements in the manual, and the original monitor is a straight lift of the NatSemi Introkit monitor. However the lack of a copyright notice doesn't mean that there isn't any. So if you believe you hold IPR in the software perhaps you would be kind enough to get in touch to discuss getting this machine to live-on into the 21st century.