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Post #23 by Mac128
Source Forum68kMLA
CategoryHardware
Post DateTue, 19 Oct 2010 - 19:47
Original URLhttps://68kmla.org/bb/threads/i-have-diagnosed-my-problem-as-much-as-possible.21433/
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This post is mind-numbing. Your question is not clear, but I think you are asking why does the rear bucket label only say "Macintosh" when it was manufactured a month after the 512K was released? Is that about right? In which case if you check the M0001 Registry, you'll find the 128K labels do not appear until well after the 512K was released. The label did not change overnight, the exact reasons are unknown. It could well be that the Mac was selling poorly at that point and they decided not to throw out their stock of bucket labels and print new ones to save money. It's also possible given their tight supply chain that Jobs simply made the decision that the label not change on the original 128K, and only when he got distracted with internal control of the company, did marketing make the decision To revise the label because there may have been confusion in the market place. Regardless, it is perfectly normal for a 128K Mac to have the original label through the end of 1984 and even later.

The one picture you did not post or make clear is that of the logic board. If it is an original single part number 630-0101 (not the dual hybrid 630-0101/630-0118), there are a number of explanations for this, the least of which is they exhausted their supply of the original board stock prior to assembling 128K boards from the limited supply of initial 512K boards which would have been dedicated to getting the highly awaited 512K Macs out the door. Another explanation could be that the board was swapped at some point since the hybrid boards were much easier to upgrade to 512K.

So no real mystery here.

mp.ls