Re: Identify Cards!

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ab616@chebucto.ns.ca (Tony Cianfaglione) wrote:

>   These and a few others came out of a rather strange looking IIe (at
>least I think it's a IIe).  It's not a II+ from all the pictures I've seen
>of IIpluses but the motherboard is really long and narrow and extends from
>the very front to the very back of the computer and is stacked with '416'
>chips.  It has a 6502 (not a 65C02) chip.  It differs quite a bit from my
>IIe in internal looks and design.  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).