Prototype Apple //c found

From: Scott Ware <ware_at_xtal.pharm.nwu.edu>
Date: Wed May 6 11:10:23 1998

On Tue, 5 May 1998, Sam Ismail wrote:

> When I got home I opened it up along with a regular production //c and
> started comparing the motherboards of the two. There were several minor
> differences. Some silkscreen lettering was different and there were a
> couple minor component changes, but nothing significant and for the most
> part the board layout was identical.

The IIc prototype that I have must be a later revision, since it has a
mask-programmed character ROM (that is marked as a prototype) instead of
the EPROM that is in your machine. It has been a while since I've had it
apart, but I seem to remember seeing several other (non-ROM) ICs that were
labeled as prototypes, as well. I'll open it up again and take a look.

If anyone is interested, there is a fuzzy picture of this machine on my
(currently content-poor) collection web site, at

http://xtal.pharm.nwu.edu/~ware/collection/machines/a2cproto.html

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Scott Ware                       ware_at_xtal.pharm.nwu.edu
Received on Wed May 06 1998 - 11:10:23 BST

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