Re: Talking about eBay wierdness... check this one out...

[quadrajet1@aol.com (Quadrajet1)]

>> hmmm considering it was before the apple //'s were made a keyboard with
>> the apple keys wouldnt have been an accurate mock up... it is probly a
>> surplus terminal keyboard (which were very common on homebrew machines)
>> either way it is an awfully expensive surplus keyboard and piece of wood...
>
>Right, on the "real" Apple I prototype, it would have been just a plain
>surplus ASCII keyboard like those used on terminals at the time.
>
>On this mockup, however, it appears they took a //e keyboard and removed
>some keys.
>
>cheers,
>j

  The ebay Apple I does look like a //e keyboard.  The keyboard on the
Smithsonian machine looks like a TI keyboard from one of their Teletype
terminals.  TI was famous for that orange keycap on their keyboards.  Some ebay
buyer will be very disappointed.

Raymond