13 May
2016
13 May
'16
7:34 p.m.
On Fri, May 13, 2016 at 9:20 PM, Lyndon Nerenberg <lyndon at orthanc.ca> wrote:
Apple manufactured an OEM Apple ][+ ? Really? I was
pretty sure the B&H's were an independent product. Apple licensed them to try to
step on the clone market. I can't fathom Apple letting someone else sell their own
product (modulo case colour) at a price that undercut the official product.
Every part but (iirc) the case was Apple's and Apple-branded. It was
just a regular //+, except....
I do recall now the local elementary & jr. high
schools gobbled them up. (The B&H variant.)
The story goes that Apple had trouble getting into certain educational
markets because schools weren't used to budgeting for computers; but
they did buy a lot of A/V equipment. Apple made a deal with
well-known educational vendor B&H, who made black cases with a special
A/V box on the back (a cluster of RCA connectors) and voila, there was
a computer that a school could buy in the same lot as the Wollensak
tape machines, 16mm projectors and those big headphones with the poofy
white ear cushions.
-j