19 Jul
2003
19 Jul
'03
7:12 p.m.
I have one of these Plastic cased Apples. One question I do have is what sort of
keyboard they use. The keyboard conector on the mother board is wited directly to a nine
pin serial socket on the back of the machine. Does it use the standard Apple II keyboard
in a special case?? I seem to remember seeing info on how to wire an IBM keyboard to an
apple some where. Can this be done for this machine?? Or am I mistaken. In spite of my
small collection of Apple II parts I have never really taken much notice of these machines
until recently when I have decided to do a "clean out" so advice on how to get
this Apple in a more useable state would be apreciated......
Peter T.
Looking at the motherboard it looks like a generic
Apple ][+ clone. Clones
based on the same motherboard were sold here (Australia) in XT style cases
like the one you have, smaller plastic desktop cases (floppy drives side by
side) and Apple ][ style cases with external drives. I've had all three
variants over time. I've seens ads for a luggable version with an internal
mono monitor, but I've never found one.