Apple 1 on eBay

[Sellam Ismail]

On Fri, 27 Jun 2008, Scott Austin wrote:

> Why?  In the photos of the monitor attached to the Apple 1, I recognized 
> a video problem that I ran into when I built my Repro Apple 1.  It's an 
> array of small dots across the entire monitor screen.  I wanted to 
> contact the owner to provide my bit of insight on the problem.

Interesting!  I too saw this issue on an Apple-1 I brokered a couple years 
back.  If you turn down the contrast or something it seems to go away.

What is your fix?

> Does anyone know the Japanese owner(s) of Apple 1('s)?

I have one in my registry.  He bought the first Apple-1 I brokered in 2000 
(at VCF 4.0).

> At one time I only had the last name of an owner who had two Apple 1's. 
> Could it be him?

This particular Japanese owner has two, so maybe/probably.  His name is 
Yumoto Hirohisa.  This is public knowledge, by the way, his story having 
been written about in Christine Finn's book, _Artifacts: An 
Archaeologist's Year in Silicon Valley_.

> Does anyone have photos of a Japanese owner with his Apple 1?

In fact, there's one in the book :)

I have extra copies available for sale or trade (I think they cost me $20 
or so).

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Sellam Ismail                                        Vintage Computer Festival
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