Re: //c hardware trivia...

[ralphp@prysm.net (Ralph Wade Phillips)]

Hi, Mitchell!

In article <23MAY199621044466@vax2.concordia.ca>, spec@vax2.concordia.ca
(Mitchell Spector) wrote:

> In articl xray@cs.brandeis.edu (Nathan Raymond) writes...
(snipped!)

> 
> >MEMORY EXPANSION IIC: (1986-87)  Platinum grey plastic casing; has all 
> 
>         The memory expansion IIc (ROM 3) was introduced at the same 
> time as the Apple IIgs, September 15th, 1986. However I've seen 
> conflicting reports as to whether the external casing was changed
> from snow-white to platinum-grey (I know for certain the keyboard
> color changed from beige to light-grey though). 
> 
>         I've just examined a number of glossy color booklets 
> promoting the Apple IIc, IIe and IIgs that I picked up from Apple
> dealers years ago (quite a few actually, nice collector pieces :).
> From what I can tell, the keyboard is grey but the casing appears
> to be white (the IIc is displayed next to a platinum IIe and IIgs).
> I can't tell for certain, so perhaps someone out there can verify
> this bit of trivia as well (anyone out there have a ROM 3 or ROM 4
> IIc in a platinum case?)

        I was the head of service at an Apple dealer at that time.  The
Memory Expansion motherboard came out about a month BEFORE the IIgs was
intro'ed (we had one on display at the time), since Apple ran out of the
non-mem-exp main boards before they wanted to.  The ones that came with
the //gs as part of THAT intro were also platinum in color - Apple went to
all-platinum at that time.

        The point is that you can have a white //c with an original
mem-exp main board, but if it's platinum, it's SUPPOSED to have the
mem-exp main board.  And, the mem-exp-mb was a service upgrade for older
machines.


> 
> >APPLE IIC+:   (1987-89)  This was the last version of the IIc family. It 
> 
>         Actually the Apple IIc Plus was introduced September 16th, 1988,
> not anytime during 1987. This for certain had a platinum colored case.  
> 
        Yep.  The Laser 128 was the impetus for the //c+ coming out.

        RwP