Apple 1 schematics

From: Marvin Johnston <marvin_at_rain.org>
Date: Sun Jan 19 12:51:00 2003

Sellam Ismail wrote:
>
> >From the front photo you can see that the connecting traces are very
> tight. However, within proximity of the ICs, they are inferable, but it's
> not always obvious. I know this because I've looked at an Apple-1 a few
> times and pondered how challenging it would be to discern the traces
> undeather sockets. If you look at the socket on the far left of the
> board, right above the Apple Computer 1 wording, you'll see what most (if
> not all) of the sockets on the board look like. There's no way to see
> underneath without removing the socket.

A bright light on the component side of the board shining at the IC in
question will sometimes allow the component side traces to be seen. I
really can't imagine the Apple I board being hard to reverse engineer
althought it would take some time to do it.
Received on Sun Jan 19 2003 - 12:51:00 GMT