Mike will you offering these boards in full kit format?  e.g. with all the parts required to build them?

Personally I'd like to see these boards offered in original format.

Yes, we will offer bare board (with a few key parts included) and also 'upgrade packs' to take things to various levels right through to a complete kit of parts with everything you need.

We also would love to see it original but there is not a lot of point in making a PCB using parts that are no longer available, nobody would be able to use them - we are aiming to make it as original as possible but with some modern upgrades - it might be that we add extra jumper pads so you can use all original bits if you have them OR jumper things to suit the available/upgraded parts. That is our current thinking.

Actually it was while sourcing all parts to build the initial run we discovered that people who actually have a couple of the rare IC's in stock want stupid prices for them which would make building the board very expensive and probably kill the entire project so it is all a balancing act between 'as original as possible' and 'what is actually possible economically'