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I guess I never looked too closely at my stealth IIgs before. I removed the top case for the first time and found something interesting.
Since it has a later style top case I thought that the keyboard would be attached to the case but it’s attached to the baseplate. I guess the top case must be an intermediate as there’s no way to fasten the keyboard to it.
I’d thought that there were 3 top cases. The early one with the Velcro cover latches, the later one with keyboard fastened to the top case and of course the platinum IIe.
Nice to learn something new
I saw a keybord mount like that probably around 1990 at a school. I remember it was also a white letter keyboard because it was different from both the white letter and black letter keyboards in my computer lab. As I recall, that teacher had some "really early" 64K //e machines and getting 128K 80 column cards was a big deal for her. Never saw another where the keyboard was on a stand instead of mounted to the case top.
The early IIe had a baseplate mounted keyboard.
As far as I know, the IIGS "stealth" upgrade of the time didn't come with the style of baseplate that accepted the baseplate mounted keyboard, so it may have been modified in some way to accomodate the early IIe keyboard.
I take it that you have the upgrade sticker on the baseplate indicating that it's a genuine Stealth upgrade?
Any chance for more photos?
It’s a genuine Apple baseplate, with stickers.
If you look at pictures of the Apple part you’ll see 4 holes at the front to attach the keyboard mounting bracket. I don’t know if the replicas included those.
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Interesting! I just looked at my own (genuine) Stealth GS and those holes are there except they're unused - I never really took notice of them, but I suppose that's how they accounted for earlier models with baseplate mounted keyboards - as rare as Stealth GS machines are, yours is rarer still.