By the way, I did some research about this site a while back... this guy
Turley is a controversial figure from the old Apple II community. He has a
history of grandiose claims (e.g. "I gave Apple the idea for the iMac
advertising theme") and has been frequently accused of commercial software
piracy & putting his name on code other people have written (e.g.
http://www.cyberstation.fr/~zardini/DrTom/). There is no evidence he
actually owns the Apple 1 pictured, he simply got the photos from a
potential seller.
As for the Apple 1 cases, apparently you could order a hand-made one-off
case from the Apple guys, but most people either just made a case themselves
or bought a case made for an ASCII keyboard and used that (see the BYTE ads
for Shugart floppies ca. 1978, they show a guy with a North Star Horizon
using a keyboard mounted in a case that looks just like the typical sort of
case people put Apple 1's into.
-----Original Message-----
From: Michael Maginnis [mailto:celt_at_chisp.net]
Sent: Thursday, June 24, 1999 4:43 AM
To: Discussion re-collecting of classic computers
Subject: Re: 70's sheet metal cases
The case is actually wood, not sheet metal. IIRC, it was one of the
handmade Apples in Wozniak's garage (after the operation moved from
Job's bedroom in his parents' house).
Mike
Bill Sudbrink wrote:
>
> Did anyone else follow the link in the WIRED Apple 1 article?
> It goes here:
>
> http://www.grin.net/~cturley/gsezine/GS.WorldView/*APPLE.HISTORY/
>
> Does anyone know the origin of this case? The color and
> general style of the sheet metal look about right for some
> OSI boxes. It also has a SOL-ish quality.
>
> Were there one or two sheet metal shops doing the cases for
> most computers in the mid-to-late 70's?
>
> I've sent this question off to the ex-OSI engineer I know, but
> he will probably take a couple of weeks to respond.
>
> Bill Sudbrink
Received on Thu Jun 24 1999 - 09:44:13 BST