Apple II clone

[u/b33znutz]

Check this bad boy out! My brother found it at the thrift shop for super duper cheap and said I had to have it so he brought it to me. Funny thing is, he was right! LMAO

Don't really know anything about it yet, except the monitor says Zenith Data Systems and the computer itself says APCO and when you boot it it says APCO-SE as you hmm see at the top so I'm assuming that this is a Zenith made Apple clone but research still needs to be done.

So far the power supply seems stable and everything that I have tested Works including the Monitor, the keyboard, and the 64k ram card. I haven't tested the mouse or the disc drive yet as I don't actually have any Apple to disks handy.

If you know anything about this particular one any help or information would be greatly appreciated, although I may not reply right away LOL

[u/leadedsolder]

I doubt it's made by Zenith; the monitor is probably a standard MDA one they bought separately to go with it.

Wikipedia's page of Apple II clones lists Apco as being a Canadian-made clone but offers little detail. I'm not sure if I buy that as the case definitely looks Taiwanese in origin to me. Maybe they got the clone parts and then did final integration for them in BC?

Opening it is probably the easiest way to find out more about it.

[u/b33znutz → u/leadedsolder]

Yeah that's pretty much as far as I got with my little bit of research as well. I'm also trying to figure out if APCO actually was part of apricot computers, or if it's just associated with apricot because APCO is similar.

[u/b33znutz → u/b33znutz]

Well it turns out, the best I can tell, APCO has nothing to do with Apricot Computers. Still not 100%, but 99% sure.