Simon D. Williams wrote:
On Tue, 11 May 2010, D Finnigan wrote:Quick question: were there ever unenhanced IIe (that display Apple ][ on boot) which had the black-lettered keys?Yes... I have a stack of IIe's that came from a school - some are enhanced, some not... all of them have the black lettered keys. Of course I'm assuming all the keyboards are original.
I'm glad you brought that up... It is quite likely that many //e's in "circulation" have had boards swapped, keyboards swapped, etc. It is not at all improbable that a //e today is a "mosaic" of several generations of //e parts. -michael NadaNet 3.0 for Apple II parallel computing! Home page: http://home.comcast.net/~mjmahon/ "The wastebasket is our most important design tool--and it's seriously underused."