At 09:41 2/25/98 -0500, Chuck wrote:
>Scott Walde wrote:
>> > >Thinking out loud:
>> > >I wonder what the market would be for an Apple I replica?
>Yeah, but!!!
>
>Can you picture the problems trying to document the lineage of a
>'genuine' Altair, IMSAI, or Apple.
That's called provenance, and antique dealers do it all the time -- and
I've written provenance on an Apple One myself, which was easy, since the
board was being bought from a retired Apple exec and he showed me all the
right stuff.
Car and airplane collectors have procedures in place to deal with these
matters, and we will end up copying those. For example, there aren't many
Bugattis around any more with ALL their original parts, but thanks to the
infrastructure that's evolved, people simply know which parts are in what
car. It only matters when they change hands, anyway. This is what's
behind, for example, Chris Bachmann's attempt to establish an Apple One
registry.
Absent that, though, I think that any Apple One "replica" would currently
be considered a forgery.
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Received on Wed Feb 25 1998 - 11:27:35 GMT