Apple to the Core

Will people pay $200 a pop for remakes of the original Apple I pooter, complete with circa 1975 tech? Vince Briel thinks so.

Out the of the box the new Apple I will be able to do just about nothing, not too different from the original.

Comments

[Ron Hardin]

I'd spring for a PDP-11. Must have lights and panel switches. 11/40 or /70 would be nice. No need for the original curcuitry though.

[quaker120]

More proof that Apple cultists will buy anything.

[Mark Borok]

The original Mac, maybe; the Apple ][ has some fans. But I've never heard anyone wax nostalgic over the first Apple model.

However, the original iMac will one day be a collectible.

[dude]

An Apple ][ I would buy. I used to spend all day playing around with that. Wonder if you can get Beagle Bros stuff anywhere?

I already went on an emulator kick a while back. Wow, Wizardy was really crude. . . how did I play that stuff 12 hours a day?

[Mahalito]

The unknown coin breathes on you.

[NoStar]

Apple I, big deal. When a clone of a Commodore64 becomes available, let me know. That was a real computer.

[jim]

April Fool's is months away.

[jim]

April Fool's is months away.

[Rob]

There are at least a couple of C64 emulators available for windows, as well as copies of the game "Raid on Bungling Bay" --the greatest helicopter shoot-em-up game of all time.

[Madog]

People will pay $200 for replicas of all sorts of antique items. Computers just become antiques a lot faster.

[Keith]

It's a crying shame that Commodore broke themselves. I LOVE the Commodore-64 stylistic intro to GTA: Vice City. When I first saw it, it almost (but not quite) made up the price of admission right there. It's remarkable how many Amigas still form the backbone of local cable-access studio production equipment - from personal experience I'm 3 for 3.

Who's up to make a replica trash 80? I needs ta play my "Oregon Trail" and relive the second grade.

[Matt]

$200? A small price to pay for hours of Castle Wolfenstein bliss!

[Citizen]

Matt, you were playing Wolfenstein on an Apple I? That must have been one incredible overhaul job you put down on what would have been 8 year-old hardware to play a game released in 1983.

[Brian]

Ahh...Oregon Trail...the crown jewel of elementary education software in the '80s.

I think that game would fall under "zero tolerance" rules now...since you have to "shoot" your food with a "gun" (at near-Pong-levels of resolution!)

[Mo]

I loved Oregon Trail. Buy 0 food and tons of bullets. The farmer occupation should've been simply renamed hunter.

[joe]

Playing Oregon Trail used to be ok in computer skills class. The teachers were absolutely clueless about this new subject they were supposed to teach.

[Anonymous]

I'd pay $200 for an Apple IIc. I was on that so much as a kid, my punishments were to go outside and play.

[nm156]

How much would an Amiga 500 be worth to a collector? My brother STILL plays Earl Weaver's Baseball on that dinosaur.

[Tom]

Ah...childhood memories.

Does anyone know if you can get some newer version of Oregon Trail? I would love to play that game again.

[Jim]

Had an Apple IIc in college... told my dad to throw it out a couple of years ago since it was still sitting in his basement. I suppose I should have put it up for auction on e-bay to sell to the antique computer crowd. I had a lot of software for it too, most of it self created...

[James Merritt]

It is rumored that there are still prototypes of interesting Apple II "might have beens" still floating around out there. For example, a fully functional Apple IIGS with integrated floppy, HD, a lot more RAM, and faster processor, code named "Mark Twain." Or the "processor accelerator" board that would have replaced the Apple II/IIGS's CPU with an ARM (soul of Apple's Newton and, years later, many of today's beefy PocketPC PDAs and Tablet PCs), from the projects code-named "Hammer" and "Anvil."

People concentrate on the quaint and outmoded aspects of the first Apple product line, but little birdies tell me that there was a lot more happening in the R&D labs that Apple wouldn't dare release to the world, lest it impact sales of the darling Mac or fledgling (and later doomed) Newton. The passing of the Apple II had a lot less to do with technology than it did with internal company politics; that's what I hear, anyway.