Re: Apple II on ebay. Real or fake?

[Roger Johnstone <roger@roger.geek.nz.removethisbit>]

In <1170601329.184191.155160@a34g2000cwb.googlegroups.com> jsnospam@
cimmeri.com wrote:
> 
>    IIe's by comparison are not painted cases .. just like all the
> beige Apples that followed.   With the plastic exposed raw, they do
> yellow horribly with UV exposure -- sunshine or fluorescent lighting.
> 
>     There's a lot of noise lately about moving to Compact Fluorescent
> Lighting (CFL) and hastening the demise of incandescent...   so will
> need to be wary of this for computer rooms.
> 
> ~ J

I replaced most of my household lights with compact flourescents when 
the modern high-frequency switching types became available about 15 
years ago, and I've still got a couple of those original lamps running. 
The Apple eMac I owned until recently was never in direct sunlight, but 
sat two metres from a CFL for four years. Like most of Apple's current 
computers the eMac shell was clear polycarbonate painted white on the 
inside. Even after years of exposure it still looked pure white, but the 
keyboard's key caps which were made from white plastic were quite 
yellowed. I don't think the CFL contributed to it much since all the 
visible parts of the caps were evenly yellowed, even on the backs facing 
away from the lamp. The undersides of the caps were still white though, 
so the yellowing was probably due to exposure to the indirect sunlight.

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