At 17:59 11/1/97 -0800, you wrote: If you want to be Captain-Nitpickily accurate, it was called Sup'r Mod, and the supplier's name was Marty Spergel -- the guy who first made himself famous at the Homebrew Computer Club by GIVING away an Intel 8080 chip. ("*gee!*") It wasn't that "Apple could not get FCC certification for an RF adapter," but that they knew darn well they didn't want to, because it would have slowed things up, cost a lot, and maybe forced design changes. Independent certification for a third-party RF modulator was much easier and cheaper. So the ]['s went out with advice to the customer that they did NOT meet FCC spec, and that if interference was encountered, it was the customer's responsibility to interpolate a proper device. I suspect Apple actually subsidized the certification of the Sup'r Mod, and everything after that was gravy -- Apple got off the FCC hook, the ][ stayed cheap to build, and Marty sold a g'zillion Sup'r Mods and got modulatedly rich. __________________________________________ Kip Crosby engine(a)chac.org http://www.chac.org/index.html Computer History Association of California