Re: Apple II Euromod / Apple II Europlus

[Steven Weyhrich <a2history@gmail.com>]

On Wednesday, May 1, 2013 3:22:30 PM UTC-5, Sean Fahey wrote:
> On Tuesday, April 30, 2013 8:51:21 PM UTC-5, Steven Weyhrich wrote:
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> > I guess that would explain the change in case during its run. Did they get permission to not only sell the ITT 2020 clone but also use a case that was just like the Apple II?
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> So long ago, and I only had cursory knowledge of it all back then. I have to defer to our esteemed friend Ewen.
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> These should be examples of the LTM model: 
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> http://www.hansotten.com/himages/itt2020a.jpg
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> http://www.oldbits.de/collection/itt2020_1.jpg
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> http://www.oldbits.de/collection/itt2020_2.jpg
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> http://mirrors.apple2.org.za/Apple%20II%20Documentation%20Project/Computers/Other/ITT%202020/Photos/ITT%202020%20v2%20-%20Inside.jpg
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> And then the familiar case appears, with the ITT badge.
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> http://www.vintagemacworld.com/itt2020/case1.jpg
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> I wonder if Apple started supplying the cases ITT before or after they RFI shielded their cases. I bet it was after.

My ITT 2020 expert, Yves de Ryckel, responded to email, and said he is certain that the first cases were modeled after the Apple case, and then later they revised it to the one with the wide ITT logo on it, and an "Apple Systems" tag in the lower right corner of the keyboard.

Beyond his declaration I don't have any date info to verify or refute his claim. It may be that after Apple started making the Euromod / Europlus, they wanted to be sure that customers did not confuse the ITT 2020 with the Euro Apple II, and so had ITT change the case design.