12 Mar
2003
12 Mar
'03
11:31 a.m.
Guys, this is turning into another George Bush political thread. If
the buyer and seller are happy. Then be happy too.
Rob Borsuk
rborsuk(a)colourfull.com
ps. I got Mark 8 plans from Jon Titus and I've been collecting parts to
build my own. I will consider mine "original" if I can do it finding
all the old parts listed on the schematic. If I have to replace some
of them then I will note the changes.
On Wednesday, March 12, 2003, at 12:10 PM, Bryan Blackburn wrote:
Nope. Board sets were available for order through
Techniques,
authorized by Jon Titus. If I made an Apple 1 from original plans,
could I sell it as original without eventually spending time in court?
Of course not. "But" you say, "The Apple 1 was sold as a completed
product!" So? What are you paying for? Old parts? I have all the old
parts I need to make an Apple 1. Is it the board? What if I had an
unpopulated board I made myself in the seventies? Or is it age of the
solder, or the date that it was assembled? I say it is all of the
above. I also think that original boards from the authorized source
account for much more than anything else, since the board sets were
really the only thing authorized for production. I would be very
unhappy if I bought an Apple 1 for more than the cost of making one
today, and found out after the fact that it was a replica.
-Bryan