Re: Apple 1 emulator and/or replica info

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Patrick Schaefer <pa.schaefer@fz-juelich.de> wrote:

>>[Since the Apple 1 was homemade, what's to stop a sly 1999
>>person from making one and passing off the fake for thousands?]
>
>For drawing the pcb you would need good quality scans (150 dpi full
>size) of both sides of the original Apple I. That means someone has to
>take his board out of the safe, remove the big ICs, put it onto his
>flatbed scanner, and take photos of both sides. 
>Most Apple I were fitted into wooden boxes and someone who paid $20k for
>this machine would hardly disassemble it.

I believe http://www.woz.org/ is the place to go.  The Master
himself most likely still has the designs for the computer
that changed the world in his possession (or in his mind).  ;-)

Here's another though.  The Apple II is getting rarer and rare.
In some parts of the world, they've been known to go for up
to $600 for complete systems.

What if someone comes out with an EPROM chip to "dumb
down" an Apple IIe, sticks that in a IIe motherboard, fabricates
a fake Apple II case, and passes off that fake "mint condition"
Apple II.  I mean, it shouldn't be that hard to make a IIe act
like a II if you had a II keyboard and case.