Subject: Re: Reply from Woz
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>    This may sound crazy, but how about creating a "new" Apple II, with
> updated components, with open source firmware and operating system.  We can
> lure the hacker community from Linux back to Apple where they belong !
>    Ten years ago I wrote a letter to Volkswagen imploring them to
> manufacture an up-dated Beetle.  Some people thought that was crazy.  I
> think I was proven right on that one . . ..
>
> (reply from Woz)
> I hope that someone does this, but I'm sure that the current Apple wouldn't
> allow it.

Well, you'd have to change the name you wanted to use, but this might
actually be possible. It doesn't have to use the Apple roms. There are
several people who have resolved this rom problem. For instance,
the Laser company created their own set of compatible roms. There
is also the people who created an older shareware Apple emulator for
the PC. I can't remember the name off hand. It came out in the early
90's and didn't get a lot of recognition since the shareware fee was
a little steep. Anyway, they created 'clean room roms' for the emulator
and if I remember right, it even included a better monitor than the
original Apple version.

Since the rom compatibility is the most important for software
compatibility it might be easier to purchase one of these for use
in this new computer.

Phoenyx