128/512k yellow silk-screened motherboard?

[unity]

There appears to be nothing special here, I just have never seen one with yellow silk-screening before. I know many pre-production boards seem to have yellow screens. And certainly many SE productions boards. Some SE/30 boards too. Just threw me off so wondering if anyone else had seen one like this?

http://www.ebay.com/itm/381034892807

 

[TheWhiteFalcon]

Did you buy it, or did it end just now?

Looks like it's missing a pin on the power connector.

 

[unity]

It was active when I posted, I thought.

Anyway, there is always that one missing pin. Although one is bent a little.

 

[TheWhiteFalcon]

Ah, I didn't know that. It must have sold as you were posting.

 

[Elfen]

I have seen a few yellow 128/512K boards in my time. Never gave it much thought about them. Always thought they were made elsewhere. But that was years ago.

 

[unity]

Board came today. Very fast shipping. Yellow indeed, but very poor printing. Its very blury. But its a rare F variant board! Starting to think these did not exist! 820-0086-F  This part number always seemed to be more of a place holder. It can be refernced in many places, but the board itself is rare.

 

[falen5]

nice one unity - another board in a good pace  - it will live again

 

[uniserver]

wow that is kinda cool dude... can you take some nice pic's of it?  post em?

 

[unity]

Will do. Might be an early day for me, so maybe tonight.

 

[uniserver]

sweet thanks man.

 

[snuci]

I have one of those too.  It's in a 512k, I think.  I posted a pic a while ago but it looks like the pic is gone.  I'll see if I still have the pic somewhere.  I wouldn't remember which one it's in now

 

[uniserver]

Oh was that the one with the Ceramic CPU?

 

[snuci]

Yes and now that I think of it, I think it was a 512ke.

 

[unity]

Pics. Some to show how blurry the printing is.

 

[TheWhiteFalcon]

So it's a dual purpose board, but configured as a 512k unit, correct?

 

[unity]

Yup. I am not sure if there are any changes between this and the regular 512k board - 820-0141.

I think this was the first hybrid board produced. Not sure if they were test boards or what.

https://68kmla.org/forums/index.php?/topic/10866-what-revision-of-the-logic-board-in-a-macintosh-128k/

 

[uniserver]

did you pop it in and try it?  Probably works just fine.

 

[olePigeon]

All the 512ks I've seen have the 128k/512k hybrid board.

 

[unity]

^ Correct.

But I have yet to see one that has been configured for 128k! Obviously there are many out there, the 128k was sold for some time along side the 512k. But yes, this variant was the second Macintosh production motherboard.