Re: Apple 1 emulator and/or replica info

[cturley2@aol.com (Cturley2)]

This concern was justly expressed in quotes to which I reply with -> :)))

"Hey, um, this may sound stupid, but what's to stop people from producing
'new' homemade Apple "I"s and selling them for oodles of money to
unsuspecting people (on, say, eBay?)...I mean, was there a serial number
or anything? Or would the fact of new materials vs old 1970s materials be
evidence enough to notice?"

-> :))) I'd agree on "evidence enough to notice" eliminating the possibility of
such a thing from happening   ]....[   but, anything's possible I guess, via
eBay and the Internet today. I've seen some really astounding things I've got
sitting in piles behind me now....selling for very healthy final bids on
eBay.....seller and buyer both being real happy with the transaction.

Hey...somebody might even try and succeed with selling somebody an Apple 1
emulator with a full collection of program images of Apple 1 tapes at a
gigantic final bid.  Like I said above...anything's possible I guess".

Knowing what I've researched - about such large monatary value deals closed via
an auction on eBay.com, it's very unlikely that any such transaction would be
fraud in any respect, without being detected before a final - on such
transactions could occur.  And, if it ever did occur - I'm sure the folks at
eBay.com would assist in recovery and settlement on such a thing - promptly -
in any way possible.  Think about it...If they didn't that would be really
disasterous PR they'd have to deal with.

Still (IMHO), anybody with an once of logic and common sense, really willing to
buy an original Apple 1 at current collector fair value, would take every known
precaution in making a final purchase/commitment to the seller - without first
getting personal and full assurance to their satisfaction - of the authenticity
of the original Apple 1 offered.

There were only around 175 or so original Apple 1's sold and most of those are
in original private ownership, owned by collectors and mostly all are know
about now as such and/or the others are on loan and display or permanently
owned by museums and such for public display.

With the current fair collector value requested and very often paid -without
trying for a price reduction of Apple 1 original computers being sold, I'd
never do a final payment on such an offering for sale or trade or auctioned -
without first being able to view it in person.

Cheers,
Tom