Possible entertainment for VCF 8.0

[Teo Zenios]

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Sent: Saturday, August 13, 2005 12:23 AM
Subject: Re: Possible entertainment for VCF 8.0


> On Fri, 12 Aug 2005, Scott Stevens wrote:
>
> > 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??)
>
> Around the very late 1990s I predicted that we'd start seeing Apple-1
> forgeries on eBay within a year.  I'm glad I was wrong.
>
> The Apple-1 is just too hard to clone properly.  Finding the right chips
> with the right date codes is the easy part.  Getting the solder mask
> perfect on the correctly colored PCB will be a challenge.
>
>
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> Sellam Ismail                                        Vintage Computer
Festival
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Didn't the original manufacturer keep the masks needed to make new boards?
Not like somebody would throw away anything useful from a company that grew
so fast like Apple did.