Re: Want an Apple I workalike?

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mjmahon@aol.com (Michael J. Mahon) wrote:

>I have no issues with whatever some enthusiast wants to do
>with their own time for the love of the craft.  One must wonder
>though, when there seems to be an attempt to milk money
>from the beast...
>
>I think it's a fine hobby project, and some few will no doubt
>find it interesting as well, but probably not the "mainstream"
>Apple II community, if I can use that phrase.  ;-)

I don't consider it as an attempt to milk money.  Given
the time, effort, and price for components this guy
put it, it is more like break even.

It seems to me that the guy just wants to share the
living memory of how the Apple I changed the world
and in return is asking only for the price of the work.

For example, I have been planning to build stealth
PCs in IIGS cases complete with LCD monitor in a
IIGS monitor case (with the rest of the space being
allocated for the drives).  If I thought people would
be interested, I might ask them to pay me the price
of the components plus shipping so that I can share
the creation.  That's not milking money.

Woz seems to agree (see the Wired article).

Put in another way, if the my real IIGS stopped
working and a decade from now someone recreated
it, would I be interested in buying it for the sake
of nostalgia?  Of course I would even though by
then, the IIGS would seem about as useful as the
Apple I is today.