Quoted from Bugsy_D:This one statement makes me a little worried about buying these boards. With all of the technical know how on Pinside and thousands of threads from discussing problems with the original board designs, questioning why they did what they did, I am not likely to buy original designs.
Now Charlie if you provided some explanation of when you do make changes and why it makes it better than the original, that may change my mind. With all of the board repairs I have done on my recent projects, I would rather look at something that fixes the problems rather than put the same back in.
Look at all the problems people have with these so called "improved" designs. The original boards are still working 30-40 years later. Give me a 1 : 1 copy any day. Original boards have tons of documented fixes for any issue that comes up. Plus the ease of working on a through-hole pcb.