12 Aug
2005
12 Aug
'05
8:26 p.m.
On Fri, 12 Aug 2005 19:10:44 -0700 (PDT)
Vintage Computer Festival <vcf at siconic.com> wrote:
On Fri, 12 Aug 2005, Scott Stevens wrote:
Naw. It probably uses a 74LS244 chip in it somewhere, and I'd burn
myself out adapting it to use a 74LS245 instead (because I've got a
bunch of the latter and none of the former in the tubes of ICs that I
can find at the moment in the mess here)
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??)
The Replica One looks like a cool project. But
I'm a little
disturbed that he calls it a 'replica' considering:
Semantics. Just stop bitching, buy one and have fun.
And it doesn't use the original chips? My
hope was that it was a
true'replica' and you could order it for Big Bucks with vintage
silicon, or order a bare etched and drilled circuit board and have
the fun of seeking out (or digging through your junkbox of spare
chips) for the chips.
Ok, you get your hands on an actual Apple-1, then trace out the board,
etch a copy, and then good luck finding all the rare chips (the shift
registers for instance). Many have considered it, few have looked
into it, and so far none have succeeded. I know one guy who has
collected all the chips and has done the tracing and is ready to build
a new board and assemble it. The time and effort and money that will
going into this will be considerably higher than the $159 that the
ASSEMBLED and TESTED Replica-1 sells for (and that even includes an
ASCII keyboard). If you're cheap and adventurous, buy the $119 kit
version, or if you're really cheap and adventurous, buy the barebones
kit version for $60.