25 Feb
1998
25 Feb
'98
12:07 p.m.
On Tue, 24 Feb
1998, John Higginbotham wrote:
You've also got the issue of date codes on IC's to deal with. And not many
40-pin DIPs are still made the same way as original 8080A's, i.e.
white ceramic with a gold cap.
Thinking out loud:
I wonder what the market would be for an Apple I replica?
It would be very strong if you claimed it was an original :-) That's one
reason I won't pay a lot for a collectible computer. How are you going to
authenticate it? Most of the chips and processes are still available
today, so it's fairly straightforward to clone them.