memory expandable //c trivia

[shack@deimos.frii.com (Randy Shackelford)]

I went to the used computer store where I had seen the memory expandable //c
system today. They had sold that system but dug up another machine. I asked
'em to make sure they found one with grey keys. They had only one of 'em and
I walked out with the machine and a power brick for $25. Pretty decent. 
Anyhow, I hope to lay to rest the fiction that there were ever any all grey
//c's made. The machine has the Model number, UL listing sysbol, FCC ID, etc.
molded into the plastic, where older machines have a sticker saying that stuff.
There is a sticker with the machine's serial number on the bottom though. It
is of course white with grey keys. The model umber is A2S4100.

My other //c is an old beige key type which has been upgraded with a memory
expandable logic board. It has a sticker on the bottom with the same model
number on it as the bona fide grey key one. You can see the old sticker under-
neath, and make out some of the writing on it. I can't read the model number
though so no way of telling which version this machine originally was. It has
the serial number from the old sticker written in ink on the new sticker.

I am curious about one thing though. The floppy drive latch on my beige key
//c is grey just like on the grey key one. This makes me think that the floppy
was swapped in this one as I assume that it is beige on older ones. Can someone
verify this? These two are the only //c's I've seen in quite some time.

Unfortunately the new one I got today had no memory card in it. I got the other
one for $25 as well, but it came with a memory card with 512K on it. Guess
you can't get that lucky every time though.
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Randy Shackelford                                 I was internet
shack@frii.com                                    when internet wasn't cool