Re: Apple model history?

[Michael Lam <wy2lam@undergrad.math.uwaterloo.ca>]

Well, ][ is the unenhanced, // is the enhanced...

On 11 Apr 2000, Quadrajet1 wrote:

>>Interesting.  So the Mega II was designed before the Rev. A. ][E. came out.
>>Then we had the Rev. B. ][E and finally the //e.
>>
>>And the //gs used the Mega II to emulate the //e.  Seems somehow out of
>>sync for
>>me.  (ok, ok, the //e is nothing more than a keyboard chip, ROM and a CPU
>>upgrade for the ][E so it is not related to the Mega II - how about Rev.
>>A vs.
>>Rev. B ??)
>
>    I have no clue as to what you mean by ][e and //e.  Just because we got the
>//e in early 1983, doesn't mean it wasn't designed and built 12 to 18 months
>before that.  I mean, I have a IIgs Prototype (in a //e case....) in storage
>that has dates of May 1986 on it. The board is Copyrighted 1985.  The board is
>blue, instead of green. Has a part number of 6XX-XXXX-XX.  It's kinda cool.  I
>had 2 of them, but sold one to a guy in Japan.
>
>Raymond
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