Possible entertainment for VCF 8.0

[Vintage Computer Festival]

On Fri, 12 Aug 2005, Scott Stevens wrote:

> The Replica One looks like a cool project.  But I'm a little disturbed
> that he calls it a 'replica' considering:

Semantics.  Just stop bitching, buy one and have fun.

> And it doesn't use the original chips?  My hope was that it was a true
> 'replica' and you could order it for Big Bucks with vintage silicon, or
> order a bare etched and drilled circuit board and have the fun of
> seeking out (or digging through your junkbox of spare chips) for the
> chips.

Ok, you get your hands on an actual Apple-1, then trace out the board,
etch a copy, and then good luck finding all the rare chips (the shift
registers for instance).  Many have considered it, few have looked into
it, and so far none have succeeded.  I know one guy who has collected all
the chips and has done the tracing and is ready to build a new board and
assemble it.  The time and effort and money that will going into this will
be considerably higher than the $159 that the ASSEMBLED and TESTED
Replica-1 sells for (and that even includes an ASCII keyboard).  If you're
cheap and adventurous, buy the $119 kit version, or if you're really
cheap and adventurous, buy the barebones kit version for $60.

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Sellam Ismail                                        Vintage Computer Festival
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