Apple _1_ on ebay???

[Scott Stevens]

On Fri, 01 Jul 2005 17:18:25 +0000
Jules Richardson <julesrichardsonuk at yahoo.co.uk> wrote:

> On Fri, 2005-07-01 at 09:48 -0700, Vintage Computer Festival wrote:
> > On Fri, 1 Jul 2005, Bill Sudbrink wrote:
> > 
> > > 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???
> > >
> > > Is everybody on vacation???
> > 
> > There is absolutely no evidence this is an Apple-1.
> 
> Far as I can tell, there's not even any evidence that it's an Apple at
> all. Lots of keyboards from the era of wooden-cased machines look very
> similar, and that photo's too small to really make anything out. 
> 

Plus the fact that the 'wooden case' on an Apple I would be whatever the
original owner had installed the Apple I in.  The Apple 1 was sold from
Apple as a bare circuit board, and you attached whatever keyboard you
wanted in whatever enclosure you wanted.  You could have installed it in
a brushed aluminum or Bondi Blue case if you chose.  Or in a gutted
Lear-Siegler ADM3a case if you wanted 'prior art' on 'trade dress' for
the iMac.