3 Nov
1998
3 Nov
'98
11:52 p.m.
The Apple 1 discussion reminds me of some (evil)
thougts I had a while back.
What do the people on this list think of building an Apple I as a "homebrew"
project? Without much work, I was able to dig up a schematic and boot rom
listing for an A1, and the parts are all (mostly) readily available.
Not evil - just fun. And I belive it would be easy to
distinguish from the original A1 - at least if you know
to see the difference between a 1978 and a 1998 PCB.
Also I think it might not be possible to dig up realy all
parts (haven't they used a very custom design for the video
logic ?). So there replacements have to be.
And after all: ICs tend to have production dates ...
So, not evil at all, if you don't go for an exact
copy of the board and the technologies used and
you not remarking the chips (Gee, I have heard of
remarking PII-266 to PII-333, but a 6502 4MHz to
a 6502 1MHz ?). Althrugh I would suggest to add
something that might add an additional distingtion,
like Additional text one the board an mayve cuting
of an edge.
I know it wouldn't be a real Apple 1, and it
wouldn't be worth $40,000 8-).
But it'd be interesting, to me anyway, to live though hand-building a
working computer from just a bundle of wires, as well as having a "manly"
computer -- none of this sissy disk drive stuff. If nothing else, it seems
like good soldering practice!
A wired clone ? I don't think that would cause _any_ problem.
Servus
hans
--
Ich denke, also bin ich, also gut
HRK