Our shop ran an on-line bulletin board on an H8 for quite a few years after it was "obsolete" (it was eventually knocked off a shelf during the Loma Prieta earthquake in 1989 and that was that... it wasn't that I couldn't get it running again, but rather that private bulletin boards were beginning to wane as first Compuserve and later the Internet took over). The H8 was a workhorse, pretty much bomb-proof and capable of all manner of mods as various manufacturers made boards and upgrade kits for them.
You really couldn't kill an H8 (other than shorting out the main B+ to the chassis, but even that would only fry components easily identified (by their burned smell and the overheated traces on the board) and replaced. --Mike--
Our shop ran an on-line bulletin board on an H8 for quite a few years after it was "obsolete" (it was eventually knocked off a shelf during the Loma Prieta earthquake in 1989 and that was that... it wasn't that I couldn't get it running again, but rather that private bulletin boards were beginning to wane as first Compuserve and later the Internet took over). The H8 was a workhorse, pretty much bomb-proof and capable of all manner of mods as various manufacturers made boards and upgrade kits for them.
You really couldn't kill an H8 (other than shorting out the main B+ to the chassis, but even that would only fry components easily identified (by their burned smell and the overheated traces on the board) and replaced. --Mike--