On Fri, 01 Jul 2005 17:18:25 +0000
Jules Richardson <julesrichardsonuk at yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
On Fri, 2005-07-01 at 09:48 -0700, Vintage Computer
Festival wrote:
On Fri, 1 Jul 2005, Bill Sudbrink wrote:
I have not have to time to look at ebay recently.
I just did and
saw this:
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=80286&item=5…
&rd=1
Somebody has put an Apple 1 up, it has been there for five days
and nobody has mentioned it here???
Is everybody on vacation???
There is absolutely no evidence this is an Apple-1.
Far as I can tell, there's not even any evidence that it's an Apple at
all. Lots of keyboards from the era of wooden-cased machines look very
similar, and that photo's too small to really make anything out.
Plus the fact that the 'wooden case' on an Apple I would be whatever the
original owner had installed the Apple I in. The Apple 1 was sold from
Apple as a bare circuit board, and you attached whatever keyboard you
wanted in whatever enclosure you wanted. You could have installed it in
a brushed aluminum or Bondi Blue case if you chose. Or in a gutted
Lear-Siegler ADM3a case if you wanted 'prior art' on 'trade dress' for
the iMac.