On Fri, May 13, 2016 at 9:20 PM, Lyndon Nerenberg <lyn...@orthanc.ca> wrote: > Apple manufactured an OEM Apple ][+ ? Really? I was pretty sure the B&H's > were an independent product. Apple licensed them to try to step on the clone > market. I can't fathom Apple letting someone else sell their own product > (modulo case colour) at a price that undercut the official product.
Every part but (iirc) the case was Apple's and Apple-branded. It was just a regular //+, except.... > I do recall now the local elementary & jr. high schools gobbled them up. (The > B&H variant.) The story goes that Apple had trouble getting into certain educational markets because schools weren't used to budgeting for computers; but they did buy a lot of A/V equipment. Apple made a deal with well-known educational vendor B&H, who made black cases with a special A/V box on the back (a cluster of RCA connectors) and voila, there was a computer that a school could buy in the same lot as the Wollensak tape machines, 16mm projectors and those big headphones with the poofy white ear cushions. -j