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Apple IIe

Apple announced one product on 1 January 1983: Apple IIe.

It was the 1st of 4 dated moments the archive holds for 1983, 92 days after the previous one, 1 October 1982.

Apple IIe product photograph

Bilby · CC BY 3.0

What Apple announced

Apple IIe

Early computers · Apple II · discontinued 1 March 1985

The Apple IIe (styled as Apple //e) is the third model in the Apple II series of personal computers produced by Apple Computer. It was released in January 1983 as the successor to the Apple II Plus. The e in the name stands for enhanced. It is the first Apple II with built-in lowercase, 80-column text support and 64K RAM standard, while reducing the total chip count from previous models by approximately 75%.

Improved expandability combined with the new features made for an attractive general-purpose machine to first-time computer shoppers. As the last surviving model of the Apple II computer line before discontinuation, and having been manufactured and sold for nearly 11 years with relatively few changes, the IIe was the longest-lived computer in Apple's history.

Also in 1983

Sources

  1. Apple IIe · Wikipedia

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