Mark-8 Minicomputer Kit on E-bay

From: Bryan Blackburn <oldcomp_at_cox.net>
Date: Wed Mar 12 11:14:00 2003

Nope. Board sets were available for order through Techniques, authorized
by Jon Titus. If I made an Apple 1 from original plans, could I sell it
as original without eventually spending time in court? Of course not.
"But" you say, "The Apple 1 was sold as a completed product!" So? What
are you paying for? Old parts? I have all the old parts I need to make
an Apple 1. Is it the board? What if I had an unpopulated board I made
myself in the seventies? Or is it age of the solder, or the date that it
was assembled? I say it is all of the above. I also think that original
boards from the authorized source account for much more than anything
else, since the board sets were really the only thing authorized for
production. I would be very unhappy if I bought an Apple 1 for more than
the cost of making one today, and found out after the fact that it was a
replica.

-Bryan

>I was under the impression (based on previous classiccmp discussions) that
>the only way to get the bare boards was to use the plans supplied in
><whichever magazine it was> to etch your own. So how would you define
>original? Etched from the plans or etched from the plans within some
Received on Wed Mar 12 2003 - 11:14:00 GMT