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17BII color schemes Message #1 Posted by Dano on 5 Apr 2003, 1:15 p.m. Can anyone comment on the two color schemes I’ve seen for the 17BII? One appears to be the “tan” style with a tan border around the LCD and tan around the menu keys and a brown background for the rest of the keyboard. The “black” style has a black border around the LCD and an all black background to the keyboard. I’ve only seen Indonesian 17BIIs with the black style and the new s/n format. But I have seen some Indonesian late model tan style units too. Anyone know if the black style was the last units made or are they less common than the tan style? Are there any other differences in these units? Thanks Dan

Re: 17BII color schemes Message #2 Posted by Randy on 5 Apr 2003, 4:38 p.m., in response to message #1 by Dano Black units were among the last batches of 17Bii's made. Pretty uncommon actually, if only based on the total number of units built. During the last few years of production in Indonesia, they changed the colors on the three remaining (17Bii, 20S and 32Sii) Pioneers to black. I think the 17Bii was the last to be changed over. They also repackaged the CPU chip in a conventional molded plastic smd, it had been a TAB package and shared a common pc board with the 42S. IMO the black 17Bii has lower contrast yellow shifted function labels. I think the gold/brown/orange color combination of the original is much richer.

Re: 17BII color schemes Message #3 Posted by mapet on 7 Apr 2003, 3:56 a.m., in response to message #2 by Randy Also the LCD contrast of the black model is lower.

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