On Sun, 19 Dec 2010, Sam Latella wrote:
I just came across an Apple IIe that has a swich underneath the
keyboard. Once you flick the switch it goes from the Apple //e to
Apple ][. The Apple //e looks like it was built in 1982, and the
case itself is a little bigger then the other //e I have in use.
Did the IIe case shrink over the years?
Lastly, everytime I boot up this //e with the switch its hard to read the
screen... what could be the possible cause, bad board chip?
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
It's the international version - I have several, in different style
cases too. Some look like clone cases but with international
motherboards in them. They all have the switch on the bottom and switch
over to international characters. There were several versions that I
know of; Canadian-US, Canadian-French, French and UK-Australian. The
IIc came in various flavours like this too; with the flip of a switch
above the keyboard - on the US version, the keyboard switch changed from
US standard to Dvorak and on the international versions, the switch
changed over to French and other international characters.
I have one really odd II+ with words printed below each letter on each
key. R has RUN printed below it, P has PRINT, S has SAVE, L has LOAD, B
has BLOAD etc. You activate each word with a function key occupying the
'missing key' space on the keyboard layout and it would save a ton of
time typing these words, if you are programming the II+. The slots on
the back of the case are barely big enough for ribbon cables to emerge
and there are a number of eproms on the motherboards.