Re: Apple I to show up on ebay...

[winstonsmith <winston19842005@yahoo.com>]

On Sep 17, 5:36 am, larwe <zwsdot...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sep 17, 3:59 am, "dott.Piergiorgio"
>
> <dott.PiergiorgioNI...@KAIGUN.fastwebnet.it> wrote:
> > machine, and there's no much equipment needed for producing a late
> > 70s-early 80s motherboard)
>
> I can't say I have ever heard of such a thing. Forging a production
> model to look like a prototype, yes. But build it from scratch? Very,
> very, very unlikely.
>
> It would also require using old stock chips, because anything newer
> might very likely have had a die shrink and be easily identifiable
> (even by the naked eye) as modern. EPROMs are the obvious candidate
> there.

This happened with a "vintage" Commodore of some sort on ebay. I
remember reading about it some months ago, it was identifiable as a
forgery because the chips were modern...