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Don’t have $1M to buy an original Apple I? Video tutorial shows you how to build your own

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With only around 50 Apple I computers left of the 200-ish machines made, picking one up at auction tends to be an expensive business, examples typically selling for mid to high six-figures.

But if you’re handy with a soldering-iron, modder Ben Heck is putting together a three-part video tutorial showing you how to create your very own working replica – with part one currently online. You just have to resist the temptation to add cobwebs and hit the auction houses once it’s built …

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  1. Michael Austin - 9 years ago

    If people can still build an Apple I, Tim Cook can still get the parts for the iPod classic.

    • silas681- - 9 years ago

      Let it go, let it goooooooooooooo, …………………………………the pod never bothered me anyway……..

    • Dan (@danmdan) - 9 years ago

      Move on – in fact it is surely time for Apple to update the iPod Touch to the same design as the iPhone 6.

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