Re: check out these industrial strength apple II's

[mjmahon@aol.com (Michael J. Mahon)]

Patrick Schaefer wrote:

>Ernest schrieb:
>
>> I'm guessing that these were used as some sort of factory process
>> controller/monitors. Anyone have any other theories?
>
>These are D.I.Y. cases. In the 80s you could buy a Taiwanese "Apple"
>board for around $300 (or the empty pcb for $50). "Apple II"-style cases
>were available, but most people preferred the "IBM-PC" look or 19"
>racks.
>
>Taiwanese boards were sold with 48k (a clone of the Rev7 Apple ][plus),
>with 64k and an additional Z80 cpu, and as a clone of the NTSC Rev A IIe
>with an additional DIP-16 connector for the IIplus Keyboard. 
>
>In Europe Apple clones made nearly 75% of the market share, Apple's
>lawyers were too far away to stop this.

I have an Apple ][+ repackaged in an HP rackmount case.  It was no
doubt part of an automatic test package, and needed to live in a rack.
I suspect that this usage was quite common, and the repackaging
somewhat less common.

Mine is not a clone, but a real Apple simply repackaged in an industrial
case.  When you're saving $10,000 dollars on an industrial minicomputer,
you don't begrudge the $1,200 that you pay to Apple.

-michael

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