On 6 May 2004, at 17:17, Eric Rasmussen wrote:
I think all machines sold as the Macintosh Plus have the words on the front.
Correct, AFAIK.
Its only upgraded machines that don't. Apple sold a Macintosh Plus upgrade kit that included a new case back (beige, obviously, to match the old case front), so there are a lot of them out there, but they did not start out as Pluses.And just to complicate things, you could get a 512ke in Platinum in Europe, badged as a Mac Ed. (In the US, Eds were rebadged Plusses.) I have a platinum '512ke'-'Ed'.
Not sure when the color changed from beige to platinum. Apple changed the label on the back from "Macintosh Plus 1Mb" (with a copyright date of 1987) to "Macintosh Plus" (with a copyright date of 1988). It is possible that the case color changed at the same time, but it is also possible that it changed before that. As far as I know, from asking a seller on eBay, the upgrade case backs say "Macintosh Plus 1 Mb" but they do not have a copyright date. So it is also possible the case color changed when the 1987 copyright date was added to the label. It does make sense that Apple would have stopped making the upgrade kits in 1987, and so there would no longer be any need to keep the case color beige ("putty" is really a better description of the original color--and don't get me started on "platinum").
Stuart
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