Re: Apple model history?

[shack@southwind.net (Randy Shackelford)]

In article <38ee71e5.67853540@news>,
Jeff Blakeney <CUTblakeney@home.com> wrote:

>You have a few of the machines out of order.  The //e came before the
>//c and the //c+ came after the IIgs but I can't remember if it was
>before or after the ROM 3 version.

IIc pluses came out in Oct '88 and ROM 3s came out in early/mid '89. 
IIgs system 4.0 debuted with the IIc plus and 5.0 at the same time as
5.0. I'm sure everyone recalls how Apple told ROM 01 types that there'd
be no upgrade, just install 5.0.

>Oh, and the IIgs models with Woz's signature are ROM 0 machines and
>your list implies that they might be different models.  The only thing
>different between them was the signature on the case.  Then there is
>the difference between the ROM 0 and ROM 1.  The only difference for
>most of these is the ROM.  Some ROM 1 machines may also have a newer
>VGC chip as well.

Righto, some people skipped the VGC swap and just did the ROM.

>I'm not even sure you need to list the different versions of the IIgs
>as if you do it for the IIgs you should also do it for the other
>models.  There are at least four different versions of the //c and I
>think the //e had even more versions than the //c.

There were four IIc revs, 16K, 32K/Unidisk, and two memory expandable
versions. The IIe only had unenhanced, enhanced, and grey IIe version.
It had a single CF chip versus a CD chip and an EF chip.

>By the way, I'm not sure when the Apple ]|[ came out so I'm not sure
>if it is in the right place.

It's '80 or '81 for the original and '84 for the plus.
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