Mimic Spartan(s) for me!

["Ernest" <ernestls@home.com>]

Here's an interesting story. I'm sitting at lunch with our director of
technologies, and I mentioned to him that I was planning to go up to Canada
next saturday to pick up some Apple II clones, and he proceedes to tell me
about a project that he worked on in the mid '80's called the Mimic Spartan.
(see the link below.)

http://www.applefritter.com/appleclones/spartan/index.html

It turns out that he (Derick Smith) was one of the original developers of
this project, and that he has several boxes of Spartan proto-type boards,
ROMs, notebooks, about it's developement -and a couple of the actual
devices, still in their shipping boxes, with the display boxes inside. One
is a proto-type, and the other is a normal retail version. They both have
the employee signatures on the inside. He even has one of the original,
first five wire-wrap boards! I guess he had to hit every Radio Shack store
in the area to get all the parts, and he went on to explain how their
emmulation was so good that the Spartan even displayed the same bugs that
the Apple II had, without directly copying any Apple code, so he says.

The best part is that he said that I can have it all, for free, as long as I
promise not to throw it in the garbage later on. As if?
He promised to bring it all in for me on Monday. He also said that his
friend worked their to, and he's sure that he has stuff that he would
probably give me to, if I went to pick it up. I guess I could manage that.
It's a small, small world.

Ernest