This was painful to read. 14 year old me finally managed to get the NASCOM 2, my first ever computer. It came as a kit with 2,000+ solder points, but patience was never my virtual and certainly not at 14 year old so my work wasn't perfect and worse, wasn't properly checked. The original Z-80 died and I had to get professional help to get it working. (And learn to program: Z-80 in binary hex codes -- didn't get the memory necessary for the Microsoft BASIC until later). Still have this computer.