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Selcom/Jen Lemon II with Floppy Disk Drive and Monitor

Selcom/Jen Lemon II (Italian Apple II Clone)

Autopsy:

The computer Lemon II is a “perfect” clone of the Apple ][+ (Apple Europlus) produced in Italy by different companies, Selcom, Jen, Belton and Lemon Italy.

The mainboard was a copy almost identical of the Apple ][+, differ from the original for a few details, such the use of EPROM instead of ROM.

The contents of the ROM was slightly modified to remove any reference to Apple. So the boot screen that show “Apple II” are replaced with “Lemon II”. The Lemon II was therefore not only a computer “compatible” like the original, but a real clone.

The computer won the fame of 100% software compatibility, feature that will determine the commercial success.

This text was taken from the homepage of computerhistory.it and translated in English language.

Playing at Montezuma’s Revenge:

Lemon II at work in a school laboratory:

source: computerhistory.it leganerd.com

  1. Marco Petrini
    September 17th, 2020 at 16:52 | #1

    I am looking for the ROM immages for this Lemon II computer do you by any chance know were i would be able to get them as i am restoring an old Lemon computer and need the ROMS that were missing
    Thanks Marco

  2. September 18th, 2020 at 09:40 | #2

    @Marco Petrini

    Ciao Marco, pensavo di averlo fatto :( invece no , appena ho occasione di tirare fuori tutto sicuramente lo faccio , sperando funzioni ancora :D

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