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title: "Preserving history with KiCad - KiCon 2019"
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# Preserving history with KiCad - KiCon 2019


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Classic, vintage, or retro computer systems are well documented on sites like Wikipedia. Their historic position is well known. Their schematics are even published from original documentation. But how useful are those schematics in their current form? (Spoiler, not much.) Presented at [KiCon 2019](https://kicad-kicon.com).

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