Re: Apple II Bare Motherboard Vintage 1979!

[mjmahon@aol.com (Michael J. Mahon)]

Dr. Richard E. Hawkins wrote:

>In article <160820030104186754%usenet@nospam.justdave.net>,
>David Miller  <usenet@nospam.justdave.net> wrote:
>>In article <pan.2003.08.16.04.56.07.42875@yahoo.com>, Sheldon Simms
>><sheldonsimms@yahoo.com> wrote:
>>
>>> It's not even an Apple II board anyway, it's an Apple II plus.
>
>yech. Thattakes all the fun out ofit.
>
>>Heh.  You're right.  According to the Apple II history site
>>(http://www.apple2history.org/history/appy/ahb.html) The first Apple II
>>boards shipped in 1977 (the board on eBay has a 1979 copyright :)
>
>>Not only that, notice I said "boards".  The full systems shipped a
>>month later.  Which means they did sell standalone boards, which is
>>contrary to what the seller states in his writeup.
>
>That, and the fact that the purple book spent a lot oftime explaing how
>to get your board going, and its power requriements, and . . .

I lived in San Jose, CA, right next to Cupertino.  Lots and lots of
blank ][+ boards made it out of the factory--they were hardly rare.

It was quite common to "build your own Apple" using an Apple
board--loaded or hand-stuffed--bolted to a piece of wood to which
the keyboard was attached with brackets.  It was called an
"Apple on a stick".  ;-)  Net savings: $800-$1000 relative to the
"store price".

-michael

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