Odd LC II Motherboard

[belgaonkar]

Piggy backing on the other "odd" motherboard posts, Ive found an LCII board at the flea that is missing some of regular LCII markings. 

Firstly, the 4 main ICs have hand written tags on them. I haven't seen an LCII with these type of stickers.

Secondly, the motherboard's serial number sticker doesn't say the normal "LCII 4MB" it has the part number 630-0079-B

Finally, some of the other chips are of a different brand. The board in question has Motorola chips for DRAM whilst the production board does not.

This board does work (although It needs a recap) and the system recognizes it as an LCII.

Any Ideas?

 

[unity]

Actually someone what common. The early boards had EPROMs like that and Apple sourced chips from multiple sources, so nothing unusual there either.

 

[belgaonkar]

Interesting. A google image search of LCII motherboard doesn't yield any pictures of a board with the stickers and the lack "LCII 4MB"

 

[unity]

And?

 

[Johnnya101]

Mine I just sold has printed stickers on them. 

 

[belgaonkar]

Nice? Got a picture?

 

[Johnnya101]

http://m.ebay.com/itm/Macintosh-LC-II-/282485848247?txnId=1684496776018

 

[belgaonkar]

Sweet thanks.

 

[Challenger 1983]

Piggy backing on the other "odd" motherboard posts, Ive found an LCII board at the flea that is missing some of regular LCII markings. 

Firstly, the 4 main ICs have hand written tags on them. I haven't seen an LCII with these type of stickers.

Secondly, the motherboard's serial number sticker doesn't say the normal "LCII 4MB" it has the part number 630-0079-B

Finally, some of the other chips are of a different brand. The board in question has Motorola chips for DRAM whilst the production board does not.

This board does work (although It needs a recap) and the system recognizes it as an LCII.

Any Ideas?

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I have a board that quite similar to the one you described

 

[bibilit]

I have one of those also (mine being the LC, not the LC II)

https://68kmla.org/forums/index.php?/topic/28152-lc-early-boards/

Not unusual.