Mo money…mo money. These aren’t great sums. Still…probably most of this I won’t use many times again. On the other hand if I could build a PiDP-11/70 without too many issues then I may try other kits. Especially the PiDP-8/I. Maybe PiDP-10?
Even if I never try a PiDP…soldering would be still be interesting to learn. I’m certainly not going to begin learning soldering on a kit that costs several hundred dollars. I could try cheaper kits. I don’t want to put out several hundred dollars and fail to do it properly. As cool as these PiDP kits look I’ve lived without them since the early 1980s. And there is always the still cool but not AS cool, Blinkenbone PDPs.