you mean steve wozniak’s design skills?

PS2? ATX? USB!!!? How can they dare calling this a replica?!

The replica 1 was my first soldering project back in high school!

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6-1-2007 Orders are shipping. The first batch of orders are in the mail and on the way!

Has anyone received theirs yet?

Wish i could just buy a schematic and parts list. Part of the fun, for me, would be trying to scavenge the parts, building a replica1 from waste.

Although i suppose i should try the kit first…

You can find the original Apple I schematics online if you google around a bit. I’ve contemplated trying to put one together once, but sourcing some of the original components would be very difficult. It’s definitely very neat to spend a few hours looking over, though—going through and trying to figure out how it works. There are some very clever parts.

The Replica I is neat, but not quite as neat as the real thing. It’s somewhere between building the actual original and an emulator.

Makes me wish I’d kept some of this hardware over the years. At the time, replacing it with the latest and greatest every couple of years and putting the old stuff on the yard sale table seemed to make sense.

it’s kind of sad that the board uses a 6502 and a parallax propeller; wouldn’t it be easier to emulate the 6502 and the entire board in software…

Why 8-bit Apple? CoCo 2 had mediocre hardware, but the 6809 CPU is faster, much more powerful and easier to program. For example, there’s Nitros-9, an open-source multitasking RTOS.

I do praise the 6502. Back then it was amazingly cheap, performed well, and made micros affordable (except the Apple II).

Woz gave this the go ahead, so I won’t gripe. Replica, clone, or whatever one would want to call it, it’s better than trying to fork out the dough for an original. And its more fun than trying to stick it all on one chip, like the NES-on-a-Chip.