The Apple II, one of the very first personal computers, is widely seen as the founding pioneer and literal grandfather of the personal computer industry of today. As the direct descendant of the Apple I, it evolved from a meager hand-built computer kit intended for hobbyist, to a fully factory assembled machine ready-to-use out of the box most anyone could use. With its elegant case styling and simplicity (requiring just a television set as a display) it represented a computer that for the first time c ...

Including:

• Apple II family - History
• Apple II family - The original Apple II
• Apple II family - The family grows
• Apple II family - Apple II Plus
• Apple II family - Apple IIe
• Apple II family - Apple IIc
• Apple II family - Apple IIGS
• Apple II family - Apple IIc Plus
• Apple II family - Apple IIe Card
• Apple II family - The Final Years
• Apple II family - Clones
• Apple II family - General
• Apple II family - Apple II media
• Apple II family - Different style renditions of the II name
• Apple II family - Life after death
• Apple II family - Industry impact

Read more here: » Apple II family: Encyclopedia - Apple II family

Apple II family - Apple II Plus. The Apple II was eventually superseded by the Apple II Plus, which included the Applesoft BASIC programming language in ROM. This Microsoft-authored dialect of BASIC, which was previously available as an upgrade, supported floating-point arithmetic (albeit at a slower speed than Steve Wozniak's Integer BASIC) and became the standard BASIC dialect on the Apple. The Apple II Plus had a total of 48 kilobytes of RAM, expandable to 64 KB by means of the language card,< ...

See also:

Apple II family, Apple II family - History, Apple II family - The original Apple II, Apple II family - The family grows, Apple II family - Apple II Plus, Apple II family - Apple IIe, Apple II family - Apple IIc, Apple II family - Apple IIGS, Apple II family - Apple IIc Plus, Apple II family - Apple IIe Card, Apple II family - The Final Years, Apple II family - Clones, Apple II family - General, Apple II family - Apple II media, Apple II family - Different style renditions of the II name, Apple II family - Life after death, Apple II family - Industry impact

Read more here: » Apple II family: Encyclopedia II - Apple II family - The family grows

Like the IBM PC, the Apple II was frequently cloned, both in the United States and abroad. According to some sources (see below), more than 190 different models of Apple II clones were manufactured. Many of these had "fruit" names (e.g. "Pineapple") to indicate to the initiated that they were Apple II clones. For many years the most widely-used microcomputer in the Soviet Union and in Eastern Europe was the Agat, a Russian App ...

See also:

Apple II family, Apple II family - History, Apple II family - The original Apple II, Apple II family - The family grows, Apple II family - Apple II Plus, Apple II family - Apple IIe, Apple II family - Apple IIc, Apple II family - Apple IIGS, Apple II family - Apple IIc Plus, Apple II family - Apple IIe Card, Apple II family - The Final Years, Apple II family - Clones, Apple II family - General, Apple II family - Apple II media, Apple II family - Different style renditions of the II name, Apple II family - Life after death, Apple II family - Industry impact

Read more here: » Apple II family: Encyclopedia II - Apple II family - Clones

Like the IBM PC, the Apple II was frequently cloned, both in the United States and abroad. According to some sources (see below), there were more than 190 different models of Apple II clones were manufactured. Many of these had "fruit" names (e.g. "Pineapple") to indicate to the initiated that they were Apple II clones. For many years the most widely-used microcomputer in the Soviet Union and in Eastern Europe was the Agat, a Russian App ...

See also:

Apple II family, Apple II family - History, Apple II family - The original Apple II, Apple II family - The family grows, Apple II family - Apple II Plus, Apple II family - Apple IIe, Apple II family - Apple IIc, Apple II family - Apple IIGS, Apple II family - Apple IIc Plus, Apple II family - Apple IIe Card, Apple II family - The Final Years, Apple II family - Clones, Apple II family - General, Apple II family - Apple II media, Apple II family - Different style renditions of the II name, Apple II family - Life after death, Apple II family - Industry impact

Read more here: » Apple II family: Encyclopedia II - Apple II family - Clones

Apple II family - The original Apple II. The first Apple II computers went on sale on June 5, 1977 with a MOS Technology 6502 microprocessor running at 1 MHz, 4 KB of RAM, an audio cassette interface, and the Integer BASIC programming language built into the ROMs. The video controller displayed 24 lines by 40 columns of upper-case-only text on the screen, with NTSC composite video output for display on a monitor, or on a TV set by way of an RF modulator. Third-party slot cards and add-ins were available for 80-co ...

See also:

Apple II family, Apple II family - History, Apple II family - The original Apple II, Apple II family - The family grows, Apple II family - Apple II Plus, Apple II family - Apple IIe, Apple II family - Apple IIc, Apple II family - Apple IIGS, Apple II family - Apple IIc Plus, Apple II family - Apple IIe Card, Apple II family - The Final Years, Apple II family - Clones, Apple II family - General, Apple II family - Apple II media, Apple II family - Different style renditions of the II name, Apple II family - Life after death, Apple II family - Industry impact

Read more here: » Apple II family: Encyclopedia II - Apple II family - History

Apple II family - Apple II media. The Disk II floppy drive used 5¼-inch floppy disks. The first disk operating systems for the Apple II were DOS 3.1 and DOS 3.2, which stored 113.75 KiB on each disk. After about two years, DOS 3.3 was introduced, storing 140 KiB thanks to a minor hardware change on the disk controller. The user community discontinued use of DOS 3.2 except for running legacy software. A program called MUFFIN was provided with DOS 3.3 to allow users to copy ...

See also:

Apple II family, Apple II family - History, Apple II family - The original Apple II, Apple II family - The family grows, Apple II family - Apple II Plus, Apple II family - Apple IIe, Apple II family - Apple IIc, Apple II family - Apple IIGS, Apple II family - Apple IIc Plus, Apple II family - Apple IIe Card, Apple II family - The Final Years, Apple II family - Clones, Apple II family - General, Apple II family - Apple II media, Apple II family - Different style renditions of the II name, Apple II family - Life after death, Apple II family - Industry impact

Read more here: » Apple II family: Encyclopedia II - Apple II family - General