Re: Apple II / early IIplus production details. Mainboards

[Mike Willegal <mike@willegal.net>]

Apple's contact newsletter #5 from June, 1979 gives instructions for
adding the color killer mod to rev #0 boards. It states this change was
made starting from serial number 6000.

Regards,
Mike Willegal

> The first Apple II computers obviously shipped with the Rev. 0
> motherboard. I read that these were used until serial numbers reached
> the 6000s range (--> can anyone confirm this?). There seem to be two
> variants of this board though, one with the light green expansion
> slots, the other with the later darker green expansion slots (e.g Phils
> restoration project had these --> is this correct Phil ?). The boards
> were as far as I have seen hand numbered in the top left corner and the
> number seems to indicate the serial number of the board.