Pre-orders open for the Mini PET 40/80, the closest thing to Commodore's classic around

Upgraded build-it-yourself kit now includes 80-character mode, improved video output options

Nostalgia-fuelled vintage computing specialists The Future Was 8bit and Tynemouth Software have opened pre-orders for a new computer kit based on Commodore's venerable PET, featuring everything you need to compute like it's the 1970s - just bring your own flares....