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Woz OK's Apple I Resurrection

Posted by Hemos on from the all-things-old-are-new-again dept.

A reader wrote to us with a story from Wired about a gentleman who's hand-crafting Apple Is for ordering. He's been unable to get a response from Apple, but Woz has graciously responded.

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  1. Irons at the ready by Scorchio · · Score: 3, Funny

    I'm glad to see the machine is being supplied in kit form as well as pre-assembled, for that true 70's home computing experience :)

  2. Disabling backspace by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    For example, when typing onscreen, the replica can perform a backspace, which the original cannot. Briel said it took him weeks to figure out how to disable it.

    All he needed to do was install X

    1. Re:Disabling backspace by sean23007 · · Score: 5, Funny

      But he probably wanted to figure it out within a few weeks...

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      Lack of eloquence does not denote lack of intelligence, though they often coincide.
  3. A new target by MCS · · Score: 3, Funny

    Props to Woz for doing what is probably the ultimately right thing to do--- but how long will it be till SCO gets involved?

    Yeah it's early and this is the only witty thing I can think off.

  4. Re:What... no backspace? by Ed+Avis · · Score: 5, Funny

    Imagine the modern equivalent of disabling the backspace key: you might remove the second and third mouse buttons - oh, wait...

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    -- Ed Avis ed@membled.com
  5. Colleco ADAM by SWroclawski · · Score: 4, Funny

    Now where's my ADAM replica?

    And will it have the same features as the original, including:

    * Power supply for computer located inside printer
    * Being able to boot off tapes, BUT if you boot up
    with tapes inside, the magnetic field will
    erase them
    * Chip degredation temperature lower than unit
    operating temperature
    * Being unable to save word processor documents