Apple III | TechMuseum
Year of manufacture: 1980-1984
Technical Specifications:
- Processor: Synetrek 6502B, 1.8MHz
- RAM:128 KB
- FDD: one disk 5.25″
- HDD: –
- Audio: 1 channel, 7 octaves
- Connectors/Ports: serial, floppy disk, four internal slots, monitor
- Case: Desktop type
- Monitor: Color
- OS: Apple SOS
The Apple III features a Synetrek 6502B processor at 1.8 MHz and memory of 128kB. Equipped with a floppy disk of 5.25” it ran with the operating system of the SOS version.
Apple I was the first product ever sold by Apple Inc. back when the Homebrew Computer Club was meeting in a garage and the projects where financed from selling personal belongings of the founders.
The 8-bit home computer line, designed primarily by Steve Wozniak and Steve Jobs among others met great success. Actually, the family of computers became world’s first successful mass-produced computer products at that time. The Apple II series consists of Apple II+, IIe, IIc, II GS models. The Apple III was supposed to be the sucessor of the Apple II, but was instead considered a commerial failure. It was more business oriented with typewriter style keyboard, had initially the code name “Sara”.
Later, Apple introduced to the world the original Macintosh personal computer through a SuperBowl commercial video, called “1984”. During the years the company has made great innovations and the Mac series had undergone transitions. Regarding the processors from the powerful Motorola 68000 transitioned to IBM ProwerPC processors, to Intel x86 and now to Apple Silicon ones. Critics particularly praised the performance and power efficiency.
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