Well, I dropped over and spent a while with Don, bringing the amstrad and apple stuff to the front of a packed storage area. (at least until my other half said "where are you, you've been gone for hours"
)
Don, you have some amazing stuff. I'm really surprised we haven't seen you on here before.
One item that other people here might know something about is the second Apple II euro/plus.. after digging it out, it turns out to be not an apple II euro/plus at all, but a clone. I really feel like I've seen at least a picture of an "Apple II KKPLUS" before, but I can't remember where. Judging by it's appearance, (i.e. exactly like a II+) the slightly purple'ish keyboard, and the power connector to the motherboard, I think it might be closely related, if not from the same factory as Tezza's "redstone" Apple II+ clone. We didn't attempt to fire it up but seems like a cool machine.
I promised the wife to restrict myself to buying one machine only so I'm now in possession of the Apple II europlus. Some minor faults (RAM and a misbehaving lo-res mode. I suspect a 74LS
xxx) and a mostly non-functional keyboard (I expect an alcohol bath and exercising to fix this), but otherwise it's alive and functioning. Nothing insurmountable.
update... one 74LS153 had quite rusty legs and several fell off when I removed it. It's not unlikely to be the culprit. I've ordered more.