Re: Apple II Bare Motherboard Vintage 1979!

[hawk@slytherin.ds.psu.edu (Dr. Richard E. Hawkins)]

In article <160820030104186754%usenet@nospam.justdave.net>,
David Miller  <usenet@nospam.justdave.net> wrote:
>In article <pan.2003.08.16.04.56.07.42875@yahoo.com>, Sheldon Simms
><sheldonsimms@yahoo.com> wrote:
>
>> It's not even an Apple II board anyway, it's an Apple II plus.

yech. Thattakes all the fun out ofit.

>Heh.  You're right.  According to the Apple II history site
>(http://www.apple2history.org/history/appy/ahb.html) The first Apple II
>boards shipped in 1977 (the board on eBay has a 1979 copyright :)

>Not only that, notice I said "boards".  The full systems shipped a
>month later.  Which means they did sell standalone boards, which is
>contrary to what the seller states in his writeup.

That, and the fact that the purple book spent a lot oftime explaing how
to get your board going, and its power requriements, and . . .

The only one I remember seeing was in a light blue wood case.

hawk
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