Re: Identify Cards!

[ab616@chebucto.ns.ca (Tony Cianfaglione)]

   The machine is really strange now that I have had a chance to look at
it.  The motherboard has no identification markings but is packed with
chips.  It has 7 EPROMS (with Chinese writing - penciled on the tags - the
previous owner was Chinese, according to a name tag I found, and who I
intend to call as he's local, to see if he can tell me more about it).
It's a II+/IIe  case (there are only three tiny slots in back - just room
for tape-style cables only) but has a built-in numeric keypad like the
later IIe's.  On the face of each key, there is tiny alternate text:

FIRST ROW:

Q - HGR CR    W - GET      E - RESTORE     R - RUN CR    T - TRACE
    PEEK          HTAB         READ            RETURN        TEXT

Y - THEN      U - UNLOCK   I - INPUT       O - ONERR     P - PRINT   ]^ - [
                  INIT         INVERSE         POKE          PR#   

SECOND ROW:

A - STEP      S - SAVE     D - DEL         F - FLASH     G - GOSUB
                  STR$(        DATA            DIM           GOTO

H - HOME CR   J - HPLOT    K - LEFT$(      L - LIST CR   +;   <--    -->
    HCOLOR                                     LOAD

THIRD ROW:

Z - NOTRACE   X - CHR$(    C - CAT CR      V - VTAB      B - BRUN
    SPEED         LOCK         COLOR           BSAVE         BLOAD

N - NEW CR    M - MONITOR  <, - (blank)    >. -  _       ?/ -  \
    NEXT          NORMAL                    (underscore)   (backslash)

CAPS LOCK - FUNC

   There is also a disk drive (slimline - no name brand) with jumpers on
the back which allow "ALWAYS WRITE, REGULAR READ/WRITE, WRITE PROTECT".
It has a 20 pin connector which may plug into that card labelled BETA.

  The cover of the computer does not lift like a IIe cover but slides
backwards and then up.  In all the pictures I've seen (I have most of the
various II magazines released from the early days), I can't find this
machine anywhere.  It looks as if it may have been a programmer's demo
machine.

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Supertimer (supertimer@aol.com) wrote:
> >There is no name on the computer or copyright data from Apple anywhere
> >that I can see although I haven't really looked that closely.  A clone
> >possibly?

> Does it say "Pravda" on the case and does it have Cyrillic characters
> either on the case or in ROM?  If so, you have a Soviet Apple IIe
> (unenhanced version, from the lack of the 65C02).  These were the
> standard in the schools of the Soviet Union in the 1980s.  They
> were made through a joint venture between Bulgaria and the
> former USSR.  Quite collectable (more so than a real Apple II).