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Thanks for this. It's been most educational.

Oh, 350 prototypes were built.

OK -- so I was correct when I said it didn't ship, then? Unfinished prototypes leaked, like the Commodore C65, but no final complete product?

I found this page:

https://www.99er.net/998.html

But it's so riddled with typos it's extremely irritating.

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There were aproxximately 100 etched PC boards. Only 250 of these were actually assembled into working units. Out these 250, only about 150 were the final preproduction versions.

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Really. 100 boards but 250 of them were assembled?

At a guess: 1000 boards?

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