23 Oct
2010
23 Oct
'10
10:33 a.m.
On 10/23/10 9:00 AM, Mr Ian Primus wrote:
The IIe comes in two flavors - beige and "platinum". The platinum version has a
numeric keypad. Both of these machines are EXTREMELY common - at one point just about
every school had forty of these things. They're worth about ten bucks.
Actually there is the IIe, Enhanced IIe, and Platinum. The Enhanced used
a 65C02 with a few more instructions and became IIc software compatible.
The Platinum was really just an Enhanced IIe with a better case and
keypad. If you look in a IIe and see a 65C02 its "Enhanced" even if it
doesn't have the sticker on the power light.
The IIc is a small, compact machine with a built-in
floppy drive. It's very common as well.
Someone mentioned the IIc+ in another
post but, there were also several
ROM versions of the IIc as well. The later ROM versions allowed the use
of unidisk 3.5" drives and changed the way memory expansions worked.
The IIgs is a 16 bit machine, and is a box with a
detached ADB keyboard. These are very common too, and usually not worth anything unless
they've got some third-party upgrades like an accellerator, a SCSI controller, or
something like that.
The ROM 03 Versions sell for a bit and there is a
"Woz" signed case
version that people like to think is rare but, isn't.