30 Aug
2011
30 Aug
'11
3:08 p.m.
On Wed, 31 Aug 2011 08:32:28 +1200, "Terry Stewart"
<terry at webweavers.co.nz>
wrote:
Are you referring to the $60 Apple II+ on New
Zealand's Trade Me a week
or
so ago? If so, I didn't realise it was you that
clinched it.
No worries though. I already have a nice Apple II+ and my bid was just
so
I
would have a spare board for parts. With shipping costs between islands,
I
was lukewarm on it anyway, which it why my bid was no
higher than the
initial listing price.
Yes, that's the one. It was fairly expensive, but I've never worked on a
US-market II+ before, so I was very keen to have a look, see how different
it is to the Europlus. As it turns out (and as I already knew second-hand),
there are very few differences indeed. One difference appears to be that
the original US market PSU is shorter than the Europlus one that was fitted
when I got it. Whoever changed it just pulled the speaker from where it was
glued to the base in order to give enough room for the new PC, leaving the
speaker floating around loose inside the case... during shipping...
grumble. For all I know, impact damage from this has caused any number of
extra faults! It broke one of the legs off the clock crystal, for a start.
Cheers,
Mike