Roundpixel
New Member
Hello, this is my first post and i wanted to say hello to everybody.
After attending a retrocomputing event in Madrid, Spain, and realizing that there were no apple representation at all, i have decided to start my own collection and be able to show them in these kind of events (sparse around here); so i can show people that aside from Spectrums and Commodores, there were other alternatives, that might have not been popular in Spain, possibly due to the higher price tags that Apple II had in Spain.
So i got my first one, which happens to be a Katson Apple II + clone, as per the original owner words. As no documentation at all has been provided, and i´m no expert, (though lately i´m reading and learning quite a lot), i´m trying to trace back the origins of this clone, something that´s proving very difficult.
The only references i have been able to track of the machine are just plain ads (not even images) in a few magazines and newspapers, back from 1983. I even found the name of the company it sold them here, but they don´t exist anymore.
On old-computers.com i have seen a clone pictured (Lazar II) that resembles very much the one i have, so my guessing goes to a Taiwanese origin, that might have been produced for Germany, and then sent to Spain. It´s a PAL system.
http://www.old-computers.com/museum/computer.asp?c=1031&st=1
My question goes to your expertise in what should i check in the motherboard (or elsewhere) that might help me in finding where does this machine comes from.
Some pictures i took. I´ll add some more of the interior with the memory card and the Disk II controller (a clone it seems as well). The other provided peripheral is a Wico Commander Joystick (that was easy).
Many thanks for any help
JC
After attending a retrocomputing event in Madrid, Spain, and realizing that there were no apple representation at all, i have decided to start my own collection and be able to show them in these kind of events (sparse around here); so i can show people that aside from Spectrums and Commodores, there were other alternatives, that might have not been popular in Spain, possibly due to the higher price tags that Apple II had in Spain.
So i got my first one, which happens to be a Katson Apple II + clone, as per the original owner words. As no documentation at all has been provided, and i´m no expert, (though lately i´m reading and learning quite a lot), i´m trying to trace back the origins of this clone, something that´s proving very difficult.
The only references i have been able to track of the machine are just plain ads (not even images) in a few magazines and newspapers, back from 1983. I even found the name of the company it sold them here, but they don´t exist anymore.
On old-computers.com i have seen a clone pictured (Lazar II) that resembles very much the one i have, so my guessing goes to a Taiwanese origin, that might have been produced for Germany, and then sent to Spain. It´s a PAL system.
http://www.old-computers.com/museum/computer.asp?c=1031&st=1
My question goes to your expertise in what should i check in the motherboard (or elsewhere) that might help me in finding where does this machine comes from.
Some pictures i took. I´ll add some more of the interior with the memory card and the Disk II controller (a clone it seems as well). The other provided peripheral is a Wico Commander Joystick (that was easy).
Many thanks for any help
JC