Re: Apple II Bare Motherboard Vintage 1979!

[webmaster@callapple.org (A.P.P.L.E. Webmaster)]

> >>> It's not even an Apple II board anyway, it's an Apple II plus.
> >
> >yech. Thattakes all the fun out ofit.
> >
> >>Heh.  You're right.  According to the Apple II history site
> >>(http://www.apple2history.org/history/appy/ahb.html) The first Apple II
> >>boards shipped in 1977 (the board on eBay has a 1979 copyright :)
>  
> >>Not only that, notice I said "boards".  The full systems shipped a
> >>month later.  Which means they did sell standalone boards, which is
> >>contrary to what the seller states in his writeup.
> >
> >That, and the fact that the purple book spent a lot oftime explaing how
> >to get your board going, and its power requriements, and . . .
> 
> I lived in San Jose, CA, right next to Cupertino.  Lots and lots of
> blank ][+ boards made it out of the factory--they were hardly rare.
> 
> It was quite common to "build your own Apple" using an Apple
> board--loaded or hand-stuffed--bolted to a piece of wood to which
> the keyboard was attached with brackets.  It was called an
> "Apple on a stick".  ;-)  Net savings: $800-$1000 relative to the
> "store price".

10,000$ ?? Who in the heck would pay that for a bare board.  A) Not
Rare.  B) Not an Apple I, C) Definately does not cost $50 to ship even
to Japan!

Who ever the seller is needs to get real on that one.  Besides, I know
someone who has about 20 of them.