Re: Apple model history?

[supertimer@aol.com (Supertimer)]

shack@southwind.net (Randy Shackelford) wrote:

>Supertimer <supertimer@aol.com> wrote:
>
>>quadrajet1@aol.com (Quadrajet1) wrote:
>>
>>>Apple Mega II                           March 1983  (Apple II on a chip,
later
>>>used in the IIgs)
>>
>>The Mega II was also used in the IIe card for the Mac LC.
>
>The chip on the LC card is not a mega II. It's even smaller than that. I
>forget the name, I'd have to pull one of mine out and look at the label.

According to the magazine articles (both Mac and Apple II) I read at
the time, the chip WAS the Mega II.  They might have done a die
shrink, but the circuitry is the same.

They probably shrunk the die as new technology came out and to
avoid overtaxing the weak Mac LC power supply (which was quite
a bit less powerful than the ROM 3 IIGS power supply).