Apple?

[Vintage Computer Festival]

On Fri, 22 Jul 2005, Fred Cisin wrote:

> > > The first Apple that I ever had was a used, "repaired",
> > > "converted", "euro" ][ motherboard that somebody had stuck
> > > in a discarded PROCessor TechnOLOGY Sol case,
> > > with an external RCA membrane keyboard!
>
> On Fri, 22 Jul 2005, Vintage Computer Festival wrote:
> > Wow, what an ultimate kludge!  I love it!
>
> Nicest case that I've ever had - certainly makes Northstar look like
> plywood :-)
>
> The RCA keyboard had a lousy feel, but it could withstand a lot of abuse
> (splashproof?)
>
> The motherboard was pretty bad.  Corroded sockets, and LOTS of cold
> solder joints.  Wires all over the place.  Some previous owner had
> apparently carefully followed "instructions" for converting a Euro
> board, converting to different (EP)ROM chips, etc.,
> but was even worse at soldering than I am.

So whatever happened to this Franken-][?

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