At 20:06 -0700 on 10/09/01, Alex Allee wrote:
>Found what was apparently an LCIII in a dumpster (sort of) today. I
>saw the guy throw it in, so I went after it. :P
>
>I opened it up to see what treasures were inside. Turns out it is an
>LCII with an LCIII lid. It's a very odd LCII though.
>
>First of all, it's got an FPU socket where the solder pads normally are.
Apple probably did this to make things easier for testing and then dropped
it once they finalised the design. It's easy enough to add one back in
later if you have a normal LC II, so it's absolutely trivial to add one in
the factory.
>On each of the four ROM chips, there is a sticker that reads:
>
>Foster Farms ROM
>1.0F2 01/29/92
Final Release Candidate 2 of the LC II ROMs.
>HH 99C583
>Apple Confidential
>�Apple 1983-92
Apple developer prototype.
>In the top left of the board where it normally says "Macintosh LCII"
>it says "Foster Farms"
Probably a code name for the LC II project.
>On the bottom of the case where the label should be, there is an
>orange sticker that says:
>
>"This device has not been approved by the Federal Communications
>Commision. [sic] This is not, and may not be, offered for sale or
>lease, or sold or leased until the approval of the FCC has been
>obtained."
Also typical of a prototype.
p
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