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New Book: "Apple I Replica Creation: Back to the Garage"

by , 6:00 AM EST, February 23rd, 2005

For about $100 in parts, a bit of patience, and a copy of Syngress Publishing's new book Apple I Replica Creation: Back to the Garage, anyone can build the computer that started it all.

The 368-page book, written by Tom Owad, includes a foreword by Apple co-founder and Apple I inventor Steve Wozniak, with chapters covering The History of the Apple I, Tools and Materials, Digital Logic, Building the Replica, Programming in BASIC, Programming in Assembly, Understanding the Apple I, ASCII Codes, Operation Codes and Status Register, OpCode Matrix, Instructions by Category, Hacking Macintosh, Electrical Engineering Basics.

The book retails for $39.95; Amazon is offering it for $26.37.

Apple I Replica Collection

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Close Name:Guest
Wed Feb 23, 2005 11:59 am Subject: Give me a book to create a dual-G5 for $100 or less...

Give me a book that lets me build a dual-G5 system for $100 or less, then I'd be interested. Who wants almost 30-year old technology?


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Close Name:Guest
Wed Feb 23, 2005 12:39 pm Subject: Purely for educational purposes...

... if you get 2 build a G5 for under $100, then Apple's robbing us blind!


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Close Name:srdashiki Posts: 7 Joined: 20 Aug 2004
Wed Feb 23, 2005 5:53 pm Subject: Do u even know wut an Apple 1 is?

I had an Apple //e, right after the "apple 1" there are still people who swear by those machines because unlike todays computers they arent finicky, dont crash and u can code RIGHT INTO THE BIOS!

Learn something before u go on a rant about who wants something 30 yrs old.


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Close Name:LaurieF -   TMO Forum Mod Posts: 3547 Joined: 15 Jun 2001
Wed Feb 23, 2005 11:49 pm Subject:

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srdashiki wrote:
I had an Apple //e, right after the "apple 1" there are still people who swear by those machines because unlike todays computers they arent finicky, dont crash and u can code RIGHT INTO THE BIOS!

Learn something before u go on a rant about who wants something 30 yrs old.


First - it's *aren't* and *don't* (and *you* if I'm being a true pedant). There are commas you could sprinkle through *your* rant which would make it easier, if nothing else, to read.

Secondly - Mr Guest's post was irony; you know, what you press your shirty with.


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Close Name:Guest
Thu Feb 24, 2005 5:03 pm Subject:

The history here is as bad as the language. The Apple //e came out in 1983, a full seven years after the Apple 1. The Apple ][ was the machine that came "right after the 'Apple 1.'" The Apple //e didn't come out until after the Apple III debacle.

I also recall, having developed for the Apple ][ in the 70's, that it did crash, and furthermore, speaking as a developer of modern machines, including Mac OS X running PowerMacs, the majority of crashes are caused by programmers who use OS (BIOS?) calls directly.


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Close Name:Guest
Sat Feb 26, 2005 12:47 pm Subject:

Mac idiots.


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