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Apple III

Apple II · 1980

Apple's first failure, and an instructive one. Aimed at business, it was designed without a fan on Jobs's insistence, and the heat lifted the chips out of their sockets — the official advice really was to drop the machine on a desk to reseat them. Recalled, revised, and abandoned. Worth having as the object lesson that paid for the Apple II's continued life.

As catalogued

Maker
Apple
CPU
Synertek 6502B-1.8
Memory
128K, 256K
Styles
III, III Plus (1983)
Regions
NTSC (US), PAL (Europe)
Chassis
cast aluminium desktop with a built-in drive
OS
Apple SOS

Chips

2
CPU
Synertek 6502B, MOS 6502B
Firmware ROM
SOS boot ROM

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