Boogiebabies said:
By 11/85 The C+ was gone. The 6 month order time was to blow you off for a MK III and not piss you off on a MK II. I would also assume they were out of transformers, but what we don't know is how many customers waited the 6 months.
Yes, it makes sense. At that time, I wasn't aware that a MK III existed as well and they talked me into buying one. Which was very good for me at the time... a MK III in my hand was much better than a rain check for a IIC/IIC+.
Anyway, there seemed to be a lag of some months between the date inside the chassis and the date of shipment (assembly of the whole head/combo parts, sound testing, etc).
Could it be that they had a stock of chassis ready and they were bleeding it off during the following months?
Could it be that they finished as many IIC+ as they could with the parts at hand and they decided to start the MK III tally at #15,000 no matter which was the last IIC+ S/N?
With the MK IV, they started from scratch so it would also make sense.
Best regards
Daniel