Re: Apple II / early IIplus production details. Mainboards

[Mike Willegal <mike@willegal.net>]

One other note, I would consider it unussual if the hand written
serial number of the motherboard matched that of the case serial number, 
though I expect they would be fairly close (within a few hundred), as 
mine was.   Remember Apple also sold bare boards for adventurous folks 
who wanted to save money and find their own power supply, case and 
keyboard, as a friend of mine did.

Regards,
Mike Willegal

> The first Apple II computers obviously shipped with the Rev. 0
> motherboard. I read that these were used until serial numbers reached
> the 6000s range (--> can anyone confirm this?). There seem to be two
> variants of this board though, one with the light green expansion
> slots, the other with the later darker green expansion slots (e.g Phils
> restoration project had these --> is this correct Phil ?). The boards
> were as far as I have seen hand numbered in the top left corner and the
> number seems to indicate the serial number of the board.