20 Nov
2009
20 Nov
'09
4:59 p.m.
William Donzelli wrote:
The art and antiques world is full of fakes, and there
the science of
authentication is way further advanced compared to whatever
authentication methods we apply to vintage computer items.
My understanding was that it's more-or-less known how many Apple 1 boards
survived, and where those surviving boards are now (I think Sellam has done a
lot of work on this?) - which makes it harder to suddenly explain the
existence of a new board which nobody knew about. I'm not saying that it'd be
impossible to pull it off, just more difficult than with a lot of other rare
systems.
AIUI, fake antiques are usually items where there's less of an understanding
of how many were ever made in the first place, or of where all the surviving
ones currently are; it seems there's a bit more of a paper trail in the case
of an Apple 1. Give it a hundred years and it'll probably be a different matter.
cheers
Jules