12 Aug
2005
12 Aug
'05
9:40 p.m.
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From: "Vintage Computer Festival" <vcf at siconic.com To: "General Discussion: On-Topic and
Off-Topic Posts"
<cctalk at classiccmp.org Sent: Saturday,
August 13, 2005 12:23 AM
Subject: Re: Possible entertainment for VCF 8.0
Didn't the original manufacturer keep the masks needed to make new boards?
Not like somebody would throw away anything useful from a company that grew
so fast like Apple did.
On Fri, 12 Aug 2005, Scott Stevens wrote:
Festival
Seems like a cool project, though. How soon
before people start hawking
them on eBay as if they're real Apple 1's?? (three years? ten years??)
Around the very late 1990s I predicted that we'd start seeing Apple-1
forgeries on eBay within a year. I'm glad I was wrong.
The Apple-1 is just too hard to clone properly. Finding the right chips
with the right date codes is the easy part. Getting the solder mask
perfect on the correctly colored PCB will be a challenge.
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Sellam Ismail Vintage Computer
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