![]() ![]() So what about repair? well any old camera found on ebay is quite a tossup. It definitely show a good bit of wear but even after all that it still works fine. The camera shown here was used as a sports camera filming high school football games. Later models add the three lens turret, the ability to hand crank or add motor drive, speeds up to 64 frames a second, upgraded frame counter, additional longer film magazine. It has just a single lens limited framerate, I have one that goes from 8 to 16 frames and another that goes 12 to 24. The above camera is an ancient 70a model made in the 20’s. ![]() B&H made these cameras for more than 30 years and they make 5 or 6 different models. If you go wonder around ebay looking for these monsters you are going to find a blue million variations. Of course there are some things that are not so good: heavy enough to make a great boat anchor, no reflex viewfinder. ![]() The Filmo 70 is a great starter camera that has a lot going for it: sturdy, inexpensive, easy to understand, easy to use, readily available, cool retro look, good resale value. ![]() Has that ever happened to you? I mean there you are innocently browsing around and then Wham!, then a box shows up a couple of days later with something you hadn’t even been looking for. I was looking around on Ebay for Super8 film cameras and I ran across a B&H Filmo 70a in a box for a great price and I ended up winning the auction even though I really didn’t intend to. During this concurrent production, the only difference between the machines was the badge, model number, the serial number and the PROMs.This is where I started on my 16mm adventure. Someone else may have better information than I do on overall II production numbers. I'm guessing that another 40,000 IIs were shipped at the same time the II plus was in production. Serial numbers for keyboards were not restarted and II pluses seemed to arrive after about 29,000 IIs were shipped. Another way to date an Apple II/IIplus is to take the case apart and look at the keyboard, which usually has both a serial number and a date stamped on it. Motherboards were frequently swapped out for repairs or other reasons. Serial numbers were changed to A2S2XXXX on the A2plus from A2S1XXXX on the regular II and counting restarted. Rev 3 boards were already in use on regular IIs since perhaps late '78 and continued on for quite a while on both II and IIplus machines. Apple II plus production started with rev 3 motherboard in mid summer of '79. ![]()
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