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Re: Apple History



> Umm...Apple didn't start using Motorola CPUs until 1983, with the
> introduction of the Lisa.  The various 8-bit Apples (I/II/III) used a CPU
> design originally from MOS Technologies that was second-sourced by a number
> of companies.  The IIes that I've bought have all had Signetics 6502s
> installed (they were not the enhanced models; those, I think, had NCR 65C02
> CPUs in them (it's an NCR data sheet that's reprinted in the tech
> reference), but Rockwell had a 65C02 as well).  More recently, Apple has
> bought PowerPC CPUs from IBM as well as Motorola.

I will change that.  Thanks for the info.

  -Tim