[cctalk] Re: Apple 1

The MITS emulator can't play Daisy :D As I was leaving VCF late a few months ago, I was rolling an Apple2 around outside on a cart - and a student across the street was walking by. I didn't think much of it, then he ran over and asked "isn't that an Apple?" So it occured to me: he was excited to see an old computer that was probably twice his age. And, he recognized it from far away just by the shape (he sure didn't see the logo from that far away). Nice young lad, we chatted a few minutes. But the incident made me realize that, anywhere in the world, an Apple will get recognized - can't say the same for an IMSAI or MITS box. Then the Apple1 advantage is we know fairly precisely how many were made, and combined that each one (likely) was handled by at least one of the Steve's personally. I tried to suggest to Woz for him to go ahead and finally make an "official case" for the Apple1! He could probably sell them for a lot, even if it was just basla wood that he glued himself. But he wanted to do stuff with near earth satellite tracking instead. That's probably more useful. Anyway, the "personally handled" stuff doesn't mean a thing to our engineering minds- but people do still acknowledge a spirit or essence about objects. Shroud of Turin type stuff, or StJohn the Baptist hand in Topkapi Palace. Soaked up blood from King Charles I beheading. But if we need to channel the 1970s, we'll have these IC chips with Jobs dandruff or Woz drool on it. Can't say that about the 15,000th KIM-1 or the 10million C64's. (I'm teasing, not meaning any offense -- all those C64's are special and valuable each in their own way). -Steve v* On Sat, Aug 5, 2023 at 5:32 PM Chuck Guzis via cctalk <cctalk(a)classiccmp.org> wrote: