These have a bottom plate that unscrews to change the battery like an MXR pedal, no plastic battery cover. There were some TS-808s made in the 1979 period, mostly for other than USA markets, that came in a narrower box. The TS-808 and its generation have small square chrome on/off touch-buttons. The overdrive and OD-II had a different, much more distorted, fuzzy circuit. The lighter green OD-855 Overdrive-II is also in the TS-808 style box and has a circuit which is similar to the 808 - the board part numbers only differ by one digit. It was preceded by the Orange "Overdrive" and green "Overdrive-II" which came in narrower boxes without the battery cover, and the reddish "Overdrive-II" which had a box very similar to the TS-808. The first Tube Screamer was the green TS-808 overdrive pro in the late '70s. Here is some more tube screamer stuff I found
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