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The picture with the signatures...?

Early Macs had signatures of team members molded into the plastic inside the case. It's stock :) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mac_128k#Credits

That's odd that the signatures on the panels don't match up. Were they rearranged between proto and production?

http://photos.appleinsider.com/ebay-120412-2.jpg

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/72/Apple_Ma...

Oh, interesting. According to http://www.digibarn.com/collections/weirdstuff/mac-case-sign... the panel shown on Wikipedia matches a very early one. Maybe the other one is later.

Edit: Here's the story from Andy Hertzfeld, one of the signers, explaining why they might have changed over time: http://www.folklore.org/StoryView.py?project=Macintosh&s...

It is weird that the prototype has the "February 10, 1982" engraved in the mold just like the image on DigiBarn and Folklore. However perhaps the engraver was following the image so correctly that they copied that as well. On the OTHER hand, that date engraving looks almost too detailed to be real.

The molder and engraver did and still do exist. Funny thing, they're not too far from where I'm typing this now. Small world.

I don't see the date on the auction image, where is it?

Sorry, it's on the production machine image from Wikipedia. The prototype is legit from all indications.

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