Say Apple 1? Need Help! Have Info!

[bradm@cactus.org (Brad Martin)]

BOY!  I'm dying to find anybody else who has one of these!

In article <D43z1z.4w8@crash.cts.com> shack@crash.cts.com (Randy Shackelford) writes:
>In article <3hup5h$lpq@scipio.cyberstore.ca>,
>Rob Carnegie <carnegie@gov.chilliwack.bc.ca> wrote:
>>Does anyone know of any apple i boards for sale?

I've got a couple of A1 main boards and cassette i/f boards but
they really don't have more than sentimental value in my regard.
They're curious to look at, but I remember that the last time I
fired one up (14 years ago) a whole flood of warm memories came
forth.

If anybody wants information about this computer or A1 trivia, 
I'll be glad to respond to your questions as well as my memory 
will allow.  I only request your patience, I am a reliable but
slow correspondent.

Will they ever run again?  Hard to say.  I want to find out if
anybody knows anyone who could help me get miscellanea to get them
back together.  The thing I miss the most is the instruction
manual.  Very cool artwork- I had some Apple-logo T-shirts (with
the rainbow apple) and I took the old artwork and screened it
on the back.  Never found the manual after that (about 12 years
ago).  Bummer!

I am also _dying_ to get another cassette copy of Wendell Sander's
excellent Star Trek for the Apple-I, I have lost all of my
cassettes.  A very cool cassette tape interface for the day and time.

My other problem is parts.  Years ago I'd scavenged them for parts 
during repair missions on my A1s, friend's A1s and other varmits.  
Nothing serious (everything was socketed) but I need to find a source
for 16-20 pieces of 1024-bit MOS shift registers in 8-pin DIPs (I've
had to retrofit with metal-can versions!).  I also need a couple of
128-byte PROMs (I _think_ that's the size) and a way to program them 
using the good ones I still have as ROM masters.  More than this, I 
had scavenged the keyboard's encoders (the encoder chips were horrible) 
and lost the encoder-less keyboards.  An old A2 keyboard can be easily
recabled to fit, but without the manual, I can't remember how to do 
it!  (Another bummer!)

Surely someone knows somebody who has a manual to be copied!  Everything
else is by-the-book :-) once a manual can be had.

If anyone has any information regarding these matters, I'll be glad to
forward information to all interested parties.

Best Regards,
Brad Martin







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