Possible entertainment for VCF 8.0

[Scott Stevens]

On Fri, 12 Aug 2005 19:10:44 -0700 (PDT)
Vintage Computer Festival <vcf at siconic.com> wrote:

> 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.
> 

Naw.  It probably uses a 74LS244 chip in it somewhere, and I'd burn
myself out adapting it to use a 74LS245 instead (because I've got a
bunch of the latter and none of the former in the tubes of ICs that I
can find at the moment in the mess here)

Seems like a cool project, though.  How soon before people start hawking
them on eBay as if they're real Apple 1's??  (three years?  ten years??)