MIT want to make $12 Apple II clone

[Christian Liendo]

I thought about that..

First the C64 had already been completed, this means that the design work was done as well as licensing. I mean she had to get permission to make the DTV in the 1st place.  So that work has already been done. 

Second, so many people have hacked the DTV design to do so many things, they could easily get this project done quicker by looking at the hacks. 

If the MIT group wants to get a machine into the hands of people ASAP, then they can go with a proven design. I think they just need to get the people who know together. 

The problem I see if getting licensing for all the software. But if they can pull it off they will have a $12 computer with a ton of software



--- On Tue, 8/5/08, Cameron Kaiser <spectre at floodgap.com> wrote:

> From: Cameron Kaiser <spectre at floodgap.com>
> Subject: Re: MIT want to make $12 Apple II clone
> To: cctalk at classiccmp.org
> Date: Tuesday, August 5, 2008, 11:26 AM
> > Why do they not use a Commodore 64 instead?  It has
> already been 
> > reduced to a single chip by Jeri Ellsworth and it has
> enhanced 
> > graphics that are better then what the original C64
> had.
> 
> Intellectual property concerns, maybe? The Apple II is
> certainly a much
> easier design to build from elemental pieces or
> reverse-engineer.
> 
> Not that I mind a $12 C64, but still ...
> 
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