13 Aug
2005
13 Aug
'05
12:16 p.m.
On Sat, 13 Aug 2005, Scott Stevens wrote:
On Fri, 12 Aug 2005 23:11:20 -0700 (PDT)
Vintage Computer Festival <vcf at siconic.com> wrote:
Right, but there are a lot of traces going underneath the chip sockets,
and the sockets are the solid type where you can't see what's underneath.
Between a photo and the schematic it is theoretically possible, but I
figure someone would've already done it if it was easy.
On Sat, 13 Aug 2005, Teo Zenios wrote:
It can't be more than a two layer board, can it? It seems like a few
close photographs of even a populated Apple 1 board would make it easy
to 'recreate' the artwork. 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.
Woz has been asked this a million times...he doesn't know what
happened to them. The same goes for a lot of stuff from the early
days.
It's likely that in the era of the Apple 1 they
weren't that set on
archiving stuff for historical purposes. You used to be able to pick up
TONS of great old hardware (S-100 boards and systems, and lots of good
stuff) at Swapmeets when everybody had retired it and all anybody wanted
was a fast '286 motherboard.
Right, it was just a hobby that suddenly turned into a booming business.
Nobody had an inkling they were making any kind of history. They were
just having fun and then suddenly making a ton of money doing it when
everything went corporate. It all happened too fast.
Those serious about looking into Apple's nascent corporate history can
request access to their earliest corporate documents now located in
Stanford University's library:
http://news-service.stanford.edu/news/1997/november19/apple1119.html
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