Re: Prototype my eye

[scott@alfter.DIESPAMMERSDIE.us (Scott Alfter)]

In article <1164856012.150668.37660@l12g2000cwl.googlegroups.com>,
mdj <mdj.mdj@gmail.com> wrote:
>Scott Alfter wrote:
>
>> It's also somewhat odd that a pair of Disk IIs would've been used with a
>> platinum IIe, but maybe the builder made that choice because Disk IIs
>> would've been easier to build into this type of case (there's no front
>> faceplate as such on newer drives, so some additional fabrication would've
>> been needed).
>
>That's not a platinum IIe. The keyboard is from the second-generation
>biege IIe, and the motherboard is a pre-platinum European PAL
>motherboard. How can I tell? The auxiliary slot is in line with slot 3,
>and it has PAL written on it.

The color of the keyboard didn't look beige to me (screwed-up color balance
in the photo?), which is why I thought it may have started as a platinum
model.

Now that I think about it, the platinum IIe had a built-in numeric keypad as
well.  Was that part of the same assembly as the rest of the keyboard, or
were they two separate pieces bolted into one hole?

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