Building an Apple-1 From Scratch — Just Like Woz 99
Lucas123 writes "This year at KansasFest, computer fans from around the world gathered to celebrate the Apple II — the computer that put Apple on the map. But the Apple-1 (a.k.a. the Apple I), the machine Steve Wozniak invented and first demonstrated at the Palo Alto Homebrew Computer Club in 1976, has always been near to my heart. In attendance at KansasFest was Vince Briel, who created an authorized reproduction the Apple-1 and showed others how to build their own. 'As a regular KansasFest attendee (and the conference's marketing director), I was one of his students. Follow along as I assemble a fully functional Apple-1 clone.'"
"Authorized" reproduction (Score:5, Insightful)
There's something about it that sticks in my craw.
It's "an antique" computer. It's a computer of historical significance. But to require authorization to recreate something that was essentially made of "off the shelf" components? The only thing I can imagine would require authorization would be the right to put an apple logo on it, and they give away apple logo stickers with just about everything Apple sells. Oh yeah, and the BASIC ROM, but I am sure someone could start an OSS project to create a compatible Apple ROM that doesn't infringe on the copyright.
Re:Authorized replica? (Score:5, Insightful)
Copyright and trademarks (particularly "Apple" referring to a computer) can last much longer.
Although in this case, the authorization may just be the annointing from Woz himself.
A Kit? (Score:5, Insightful)
I was hoping for something more in-depth than just soldering stuff on a prefabricated PCB. That's a no-brainer.
Now, go through the steps of doing a schematic, then translating it into artwork and etching the boards and it might be a pretty interesting article.
Re:That is a great project (Score:3, Insightful)
Erm, haven't we more or less been doing that for around two decades now? I mean granted, the design has improved...
Hmm (Score:3, Insightful)
I'm not suprised he put the CPU in backwards if he can't tell the difference between an L.E.D. and a D.C. power connector...
Well, maybe not just like Woz (Score:1, Insightful)
It's one thing to build a copy, it's quite another to build the original.