Apple _1_ on ebay???

[nerdware at ctgonline.org]

If you read his answers, he's being very evasive as well.

All it would take is to open the thing up and see if the mobo says "Apple Computer" on it.  Unless the case is completely glued together, this is a 4-minute task.

He's deliberately sidestepping the issue, probably because, as you suspect, he knows it's really nothing special.  If he would verify that it's an Apple I, then there's no way he'd sell it as cheap as it's going.

However, if it's just a ][e, monitor, and some homebrew breadboard thing, then his evasiveness is driving the price right up to "stupid".

paul

ORIGINAL MESSAGE FOLLOWS:

>I  have not have to time to look at ebay recently.  I just did and
>saw this:
>
>http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=80286&item=5213140640
>&rd=1
>
>Somebody has put an Apple 1 up, it has been there for five days and
>nobody has mentioned it here???

There's no guarantee it's an Apple 1.  The seller says only he can see
"wires and cards" inside.  Perhaps it is an Apple ][ in a wooden case?
 Nobody knows, and without pictures, nobody will know.

My take is that the seller knows full well what it is, and is hoping
people will think it is an Apple 1 (and judging by the questions at
the bottom, they do).  People will then drive up the price to some
outrageous level.  When they get it and realize it's just a //e that
someone threw in a wooden case (or maybe not even anything in the
Apple line), they'll get mad, but there's nothing they can do because
he described it accurately .....

Cynical, yes, but most likely true :-)

Rich B.