Apple I Replica Creation: Back to the Garage: a step by step guide to building your own Apple I. Yeah, baby, the power of 1977*, today!
Kidding aside, I’m sure I would have been smack in the middle of the target market for this book just a few years ago. I was so bent on recreating the wheel that I probably missed out on a lot of opportunities (and to think, that was in the middle of the dot com boom. Hmm.) Don’t get me wrong, I think there’s a lot to be learned by rebuilding great works, and everyone needs a hobby. Personally, I want to spend 2005 working on as much New Stuff as I can. I’ve found the learning opportunities are just as good, if not better, and the knowledge is a whole lot more applicable**, at least the way that I’ve structured my life as of late.
* I pulled the year 1977 out of my ass. That last sentence just reads better, taken out of context, than “or whenever,” doesn’t it?
The cynical among you can substitute “lucrative” for “applicable,” but I’ve yet to really find ways to make money with knowledge. This probably makes me more cynical than you.
(Via MacMerc.)
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