Re: Original Apple // on eBay

[Wayne Stewart <waynes@telus.dotnet>]

Quadrajet1 wrote:

>   Apple did put their motherboard rev numbers in different places, that's for
> sure. You don't need to pry up the CPU, I beleive the Rev 4 MB has the rev
> number almost hidden under the front edge of the card slots.

On the Rev 4 the word "Rev" is visible between slots 3 & 4 and the 4 is
visable through the hole at the front of slot 4.

>  Another way of dating the MB is looking at the date codes (same date code
> scheme) on the individual chips.  Usually they'll be within a few months of the
> date the motherboard was assemebled.  But you could see a wide variety of
> dates, just try to find the newer or latest dates.

I always check the manufacturing dates on chips but I don't neccessarily
count on them. I recall that some years ago I tried to get a II+ going
by swapping the chips from a clone. I'd swapped over virtually all the
chips before I found the bad one.

Wayne