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Re: //e revisions?



In article <mnementhConK2M.JH8@netcom.com> mnementh@netcom.com (David R. Villegas) writes:
>I was reading an old issue of InCider and noticed that the Video Overlay
>Card worked in enhanced //e's only if they were revision B or higher.
>Now I'm curious- what's a rev. B //e?  Is it a //e with the built-in numeric
>keypad?  And were later revisions released?

A Rev B. or later IIe is a IIe capable of displaying double-hi-res, and it
came out almost immediately after the IIe rollout in '84.  There were many
more revisions, including the keypad one you mentioned.

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