--- title: APPLE IIe categories: - Computers types: - Home Computer origins: - U.S.A. years: - '1983' cpus: - MOS 65c02 params: name: APPLE IIe image: /media/museum/photos/apple_iie.jpg company: /companies/apple company_name: Apple specs: - label: NAME value: APPLE IIe - label: MANUFACTURER value: Apple - label: TYPE value: Home Computer - label: ORIGIN value: U.S.A. - label: YEAR value: January 1983 - label: END OF PRODUCTION value: '1993' - label: BUILT IN LANGUAGE value: Basic - label: KEYBOARD value: Full stroke 52 key with cursor keys - label: CPU value: MOS 65c02 - label: SPEED value: 1.02 MHz - label: RAM value: 64 KB - label: ROM value: 16 KB - label: TEXT MODES value: 40 x 24 / 80 x 24 (with 80 columns card) - label: GRAPHIC MODES value: 40 x 40-48 (16 col), 280 x 160-192 (6 col), 560 x 160-192 (2 col) - label: COLORS value: 16 maximum - label: SOUND value: one channel - Built-in speaker - label: SIZE / WEIGHT value: 39.4 (W) x 45.7 (D) x 11.4 (H) - label: I/O PORTS value: Monitor, Internal Slots (6), Memory slot, Tape, Joystick - label: BUILT IN MEDIA value: None - label: OS value: |- DOS 3.3 or ProDOS\ Even CP/M and MS-DOS with optional cards - label: POWER SUPPLY value: Built-in switching power supply unit - label: PERIPHERALS value: Lots of expansion cards and peripherals - label: PRICE value: £1270 tabs: - photos - adverts - hardware - software - emulators - links - docs - videos forum_thread: 98 photos: - title: IIE CASE subtitle: '' text: '' image: /media/museum/photos/apple_2e_case_s1.jpg - title: IIE LOGO subtitle: '' text: '' image: /media/museum/photos/apple_2e_logo_s1.jpg - title: COMPLETE SYSTEM subtitle: '' text: Apple IIe along with the Apple monochrome monitor and two FDD units. image: /media/museum/photos/apple_2e_completesys_s1.jpg - title: INSIDE subtitle: '' text: '' image: /media/museum/photos/apple_2e_inside_1.jpg - title: MOTHERBOARD EXPLAINED subtitle: '' text: |- The Apple IIe board represents a major hardware improvement, compared to previous Apple II boards. Two specialized chips replace more than 60 circuits, and an additional slot makes it easier to upgrade the user RAM to 128 Kb. **(1)** Composite video Output for B&W monitor.\ **(2)** Auxiliary video connector.\ **(3)** Joystick connector.\ **(4)** Chipset in charge of input-outputs, called IOU .\ **(5)** Keyboard connector.\ **(6)** Mouse connector.\ **(7)** ROM memory holding the keyboard character generator. This circuit is specific to each country and keyboard.\ **(8)** ROM memory holding the display character generator.\ **(9)** 64 KB user RAM memory.\ **(10)** Additional expansion connector linked to port 3. Specific to APPLE IIe and intended for the 64 KB expansion memory card.\ **(11)** Integrated loudspeaker connector.\ **(12)** 8-bit 6502 microprocessor.\ **(13)** Specialised chipset called MMU, in charge of the user RAM and 80-column mode management.\ **(14)** Power supply connector.\ **(15)** Expansion card slot Nr. 1, generally reserved for the printer.\ **(16)** Expansion card slot Nr. 7, generally reserved for video cards.\ **(17)** Analog input connector, generally reserved for Apple or compatible joysticks.\ **(18)** Tape recorder (data input) socket.\ **(19)** Tape recorder (data output) socket. image: /media/museum/photos/apple_2e_motherboard_1.jpg - title: MOTHERBOARD PROTOTYPE subtitle: '' text: |- One of the Apple IIe engineering prototype wire-wrap boards.\ The custom chips (IOU and MMU) are emulated with a whole lot of standard logic 7400-series chips located on the left board.\ The right board is the Apple IIe main board prototype. image: /media/museum/photos/apple_2e_protoboard_1.jpg - title: THE 256 KB EXPANSION CARD subtitle: '' text: '' image: /media/museum/photos/256kappl.jpg - title: THE APPLE II EMULATION CARD FOR MACINTOSH LC subtitle: '' text: '' image: /media/museum/photos/ct2lc2.jpg - title: THE MACINTOSH LC EMULATING THE APPLE IIE subtitle: '' text: Shortly after Apple stopped the production of the Apple IIe, they replaced it with the Macintosh LC as a "home" computer. To use Apple IIe software on the Mac LC, Apple developed a small Apple IIe emulation card (left photo). In the right photo, you can see Apple IIe software running on the Mac LC. image: /media/museum/photos/ct2lc1.jpg - title: 'IIGS UPGRADE #1' subtitle: '' text: When the Apple IIgs was first launched, Apple offered for a short time an upgrade kit allowing Apple IIe owners to convert their system to a IIgs version while keeping the same case. The kit included a new base designed to match the IIgs motherboard, an external numeric keypad and a label kit for the case lid. image: /media/museum/photos/apple_2e_gs_motherboard_1.jpg - title: 'IIGS UPGRADE #2' subtitle: '' text: The new back panel with Apple IIgs specific connectors image: /media/museum/photos/apple_2e_gs_back_1.jpg - title: 'IIGS UPGRADE #3' subtitle: '' text: Yes, it's an Apple IIgs! image: /media/museum/photos/apple_2e_gs_label_1.jpg - title: 'IIGS UPGRADE #4' subtitle: '' text: The numeric keypad was part of the upgrade kit. image: /media/museum/photos/apple_2e_gs_numpad_1.jpg - title: THE BOX subtitle: '' text: '' image: /media/museum/photos/apple_2e_box_s1.jpg adverts: - title: FIRST AD subtitle: '' text: |- February 1983 Advert said: For years, people have been trying to build a better Apple II.\ It finally happened.\ Meet the Apple IIe, an impressive new version of a most impressive machine.\ The 'e' means enhanced. Which means a bundle of new features... image: /media/museum/pubs/apple_2e_pub_1.jpg hardware: - title: WORKSTATION CARD subtitle: Appletalk card text: This card is used to connect an Apple IIe to a localtalk network. image: /media/museum/hardware/apple_ii_card_appletalk.jpg - title: Z80 SOFTCARD ADVERT subtitle: '' text: The Z80 Softcard made the Apple II fully compatible with the CP/M operating system and allowed it to run the largest library of professional software of the time, including the Microsoft programming languages, among them the BASIC 5.0 interpreter. image: /media/museum/hardware/apple_ii_softcard_1.jpg - title: Z80 SOFTCARD subtitle: Full package text: |- The card was designed by Burtronix of Orange, California. Thanks to **Steve Perry** image: /media/museum/hardware/apple_ii_softcard_s1.jpg - title: MICROSOFT RAMCARD ADVERT (1982) subtitle: '' text: Together with the Softcard, the Ramcard turned the Apple II into a 56 KB CP/M system. image: /media/museum/hardware/apple_ii_ramcard_1.jpg - title: JOYSTICKS subtitle: '' text: Two Apple joysticks for IIe and IIc versions, and a clone version with a fire button made by CH Products, San Marco, California. image: /media/museum/hardware/apple_ii_joystick_1.jpg - title: ANALOG HANDCONTROLLERS subtitle: '' text: '' image: /media/museum/hardware/apple_2e_handcontr_2.jpg - title: HAND CONTROLLERS subtitle: Box text: '' image: /media/museum/hardware/apple_hand-controllers_box.jpg - title: JOY STICK subtitle: '' text: '' image: /media/museum/hardware/apple2_joy_stick.jpg - title: GRAPHIC TABLET subtitle: '& its card' text: '' image: /media/museum/hardware/apple_apple2_graphic-tablet.jpg - title: KEYPAD subtitle: '' text: '' image: /media/museum/hardware/apple_apple2_keypad.jpg - title: DYNATYPER subtitle: '' text: |- Here is the sale brochure of the Dynatyper, a strange and obscure printing device launched in 1980: Dynatyper is a new typewriter interface system designed to generate hard copy directly from computer output through any electric typewriter. It exploits the high quality and use of full upper and lower case characters of your electric typewriter. Users of small computer systems can now expand those systems into applications demanding high quality text, such as word processing. Consisting of an array of coils positioned in the same pattern as the typewriter's keyboard. These coils are wired into an electrical decoding matrix. Designed to operate on voltage available from standard computers, the Dynatyper is easily installed without modification to your typewriter. Adjustments for different key heights are easy. Rochester Data provides interfaces and software for the **TRS-80 Level 1 & 2**, the **Apple II** and also a 6 bit **parallel interface** for general operation with other computers. The same interface board can be modified by jumper selection to eperate in any of the above modes... Thanks to **Bob Leedom** for information and pictures image: /media/museum/hardware/apple_ii%2B_dinatyper_1.jpg - title: ECHO SPEECH PROCESSOR II subtitle: '' text: '' image: /media/museum/hardware/apple_appleii_echoii_board.jpg - title: ROLAND CMU-500 INTERFACE subtitle: '' text: This item, a Roland Compumusic CMU-500 Apple II Interface, was used to connect musical instruments to the Apple II series of computers ! image: /media/museum/hardware/apple_apple2_roland-cmu500_interface.jpg - title: ECHO II subtitle: speech/music/sound synthesizer text: '' image: /media/museum/hardware/apple_apple2_echo2-speech-synth_1.jpg - title: ACOUSTIC COUPLER subtitle: '' text: '' image: /media/museum/hardware/apple_apple2_acoustic-coupler_1.jpg - title: EARLY APPLE PRINTER subtitle: '' text: '' image: /media/museum/hardware/apple_apple2_printer1.jpg - title: DUODISK subtitle: Dual 5.25" floppy drives unit text: No innovation in this Duodisk released a few months after the Apple IIe. The Japanese slim drives are still sigle side and have the same capacity as the original Disk II, 143 KB divided in 35 tracks x 16 sectors x 256 bytes. image: /media/museum/hardware/apple_2e_duodisk_s1.jpg - title: AMDISK 3 subtitle: Dual 3'' floppy disc unit text: |- This first version of the Japanese Amdisk unit featured one or two 3"/360 KB floppy disc drives.\ Besides Apple IIe version, several versions were marketed for various computers: Commodore 64, Atari 520, Sinclair Spectrum...\ Later, 3" drives were replaced with 3.5"/720 KB models. image: /media/museum/hardware/apple_2e_amdisk3.jpg screenshots: - title: APPLE PANIC subtitle: '' text: '' image: /media/museum/software/apple_appleii_applepanic_ss.gif - title: AZTEC subtitle: Title screen text: '' image: /media/museum/software/apple_appleii_aztec_ss.gif - title: DRAGON FIRE subtitle: '' text: '' image: /media/museum/software/apple_appleii_dragonfire_ss.gif - title: DRAGON FIRE subtitle: 2nd screen text: '' image: /media/museum/software/apple_appleii_dragonfire_ss2.gif - title: DROL subtitle: Excellent game ! text: '' image: /media/museum/software/apple_appleii_drol_ss.gif - title: KARATEKA subtitle: '' text: '' image: /media/museum/software/apple_appleii_karateka_ss.gif - title: LODE RUNNER subtitle: A great classic text: '' image: /media/museum/software/apple_appleii_loderunner_ss.gif - title: MARBLE MADNESS subtitle: '' text: '' image: /media/museum/software/apple_appleii_marblemadness_ss.gif - title: MINER 2049ER subtitle: '' text: '' image: /media/museum/software/apple_appleii_miner2049er_ss.gif - title: MONTEZUMA REVENGE subtitle: '' text: '' image: /media/museum/software/apple_appleii_montezuma-revenge_ss.gif - title: STAR LEAGUE BASEBALL subtitle: '' text: '' image: /media/museum/software/apple_appleii_star-league-baseball_ss.gif - title: APPLESOFT COMPILER subtitle: '' text: Also called TASC or AppleSoft Version 3, the AppleSoft Basic Compiler could make use of extended memory on 128K versions image: /media/museum/software/apple_ii%2B_applesoftcompiler_1.jpg emulators: - title: Apple Oasis url: http://www.geocities.com/APL24WIN/index.html platform: Windows text: Emulates Apple IIe system including hard disk, clock, CP/M card, etc. - title: AppleWin url: http://applewin.berlios.de/ platform: Windows text: A great apple 2+ and apple 2e emulator for windows - title: AppleWin url: http://www.jantzer-schmidt.de/applewin/ platform: Windows text: Apple IIe emulator with source code in C++ - title: Bernie ][ the rescue url: http://www.bernie.gs/Bernie/ platform: Apple text: (Available for BeOS too) - title: Catakig url: http://www.radix.net/~cklipsch/ctkgdoc/ platform: Apple text: '' - title: YAE, Yet another Apple ][ Emulator url: http://quark.netfront.net:6502/ platform: Unix / Linux text: '' - title: The Official ShapeShifter Home Page url: http://www.uni-mainz.de/~bauec002/SSMain.html platform: Amiga OS text: '' - title: PalmApple url: http://palmapple.sourceforge.net/ platform: Other platform text: PalmApple is an open source Apple //e emulator for PalmOS PDAs - title: Virtual Apple url: http://www.virtualapple.com/ platform: Other platform text: This web site uses an ActiveX application and Apple IIgs emulator to automatically download and play most Apple 2 disk images online! - title: Dapple url: http://sourceforge.net/projects/dapple/ platform: Multiplatform text: Apple II (II+, IIe) emulator for DOS and Unix with C source code links: - title: A2-Web! url: http://www.wbwip.com/a2web/ text: '' - title: Apple ][ Emulator Resources Guide url: http://www.cs.ruu.nl/wais/html/na-dir/apple2/emulators-faq/part1.html text: '' - title: Apple II - Apple II gs url: http://www.apple-iigs.info/home.htm text: A lot of documentations here ! - title: Apple II History url: http://apple2history.org/ text: A detailed history of the Apple II computer, from start to finish, interspersed with history of Apple Computer, Inc., from the point of view of the Apple II user. Includes pictures. - title: Apple II Q&A url: HTTP://WWW.MYSPACE.COM/135780133 text: Please Ask the Expeirenced Apple II User! - title: Apple2.org url: http://www.apple2.org/ text: Over 1000 pictures of Apple II and other related hardware, articles, the Apple \]\[ FAQ, Transwarp and Zip GS accelerator upgrade mods, 3.5" drive rebuilding, and lots more. - title: Applefritter url: http://www.applefritter.com/ text: Excellent site about all Apple models,clones,prototypes,etc... A must see ! - title: APPLE-HISTORY.COM url: http://www.apple-history.com/ text: Wonderful site with plenty of information ! - title: Caltech Apple II archive url: http://apple2.tffenterprises.com/apple2/ text: '' - title: Forever 1970..80..90 url: http://perso.wanadoo.fr/fabrice.montupet/ text: Very complete information for each model - title: Iowa universiry Apple II archive url: http://ground.icaen.uiowa.edu/apple2/ text: '' - title: www.apple2clones.com url: http://www.apple2clones.com/ text: The URL says it all. Very interesting site - title: Web Wiz CAPTCHA url: http://www.webwizcaptcha.com text: All about Apple II user groups docs: - title: APPLE II REFERENCE MANUAL (JANUARY 1978) url: null cover: /media/museum/docs/couvs/apple88_reference-manual-jan-1978_cover.jpg text: |- **APPLE II REFERENCE MANUAL (JANUARY 1978)**\ written by Apple  type of document : PDF\  size : 6 MB\  source : [www.apple-iigs.info](http://www.apple-iigs.info/doc/docii.htm) **... READ THE ONLINE VERSION BY CLICKING BELOW :** - title: APPLE IIE REFERENCE MANUAL url: http://www.apple-iigs.info/doc/docii.htm cover: /media/museum/docs/couvs/apple-2e_reference-manual.jpg text: |- [**APPLE IIE REFERENCE MANUAL**](http://www.apple-iigs.info/doc/docii.htm)written by Apple  compiled/archived by Arnaud Brossard\  type of document : PDF\  source : [Apple II / Apple IIgs website](http://www.apple-iigs.info/) - title: APPLE IIE - GUIDE DE L'UTILISATEUR url: http://www.apple-iigs.info/doc/docii.htm cover: /media/museum/docs/couvs/apple-2e_guide-utilisateur.jpg text: |- [**APPLE IIE - GUIDE DE L'UTILISATEUR**](http://www.apple-iigs.info/doc/docii.htm)written by Apple  compiled/archived by Arnaud Brossard\  type of document : PDF\  source : [Apple II / Apple IIgs website](http://www.apple-iigs.info/) - title: GUIDE DE L'APPLE - TOME 1 - L'APPLE STANDARD url: http://www.apple-iigs.info/doc/docii.htm cover: /media/museum/docs/couvs/apple_guide-de-l-apple.jpg text: |- [**GUIDE DE L'APPLE - TOME 1 - L'APPLE STANDARD**](http://www.apple-iigs.info/doc/docii.htm)written by Benoit de Merly / Edimicro  compiled/archived by Arnaud Brossard\  type of document : PDF\  source : [Apple II / Apple IIgs website](http://www.apple-iigs.info/) - title: MANUEL DE L'UTILISATEUR APPLE II url: http://www.apple-iigs.info/doc/docii.htm cover: /media/museum/docs/couvs/apple_manuel-utilisateur-de-l-apple-2.jpg text: |- [**MANUEL DE L'UTILISATEUR APPLE II**](http://www.apple-iigs.info/doc/docii.htm)written by Lon Poole - Martin McNiff - Steven Cook  compiled/archived by Arnaud Brossard\  type of document : PDF\  source : [Apple II / Apple IIgs website](http://www.apple-iigs.info/) - title: MONITOR II USER'S MANUAL url: http://www.apple-iigs.info/doc/docprog.htm cover: /media/museum/docs/couvs/apple2_monitor-ii-user-manual.jpg text: |- [**MONITOR II USER'S MANUAL**](http://www.apple-iigs.info/doc/docprog.htm)written by Apple  compiled/archived by Arnaud Brossard\  type of document : PDF\  source : [Apple II / Apple IIgs website](http://www.apple-iigs.info/) - title: A TOUCH OF APPLESOFT BASIC url: http://www.apple-iigs.info/doc/docprog.htm cover: /media/museum/docs/couvs/apple2_a-touch-of-applesoft-basic.jpg text: |- [**A TOUCH OF APPLESOFT BASIC**](http://www.apple-iigs.info/doc/docprog.htm)written by Apple  compiled/archived by Arnaud Brossard\  type of document : PDF\  source : [Apple II / Apple IIgs website](http://www.apple-iigs.info/) - title: LE MANUEL DOS 3.3 (FRENCH) url: http://www.apple-iigs.info/doc/docos.htm cover: /media/museum/docs/couvs/apple2_manuel-dos-3-3.jpg text: |- [**LE MANUEL DOS 3.3 (FRENCH)**](http://www.apple-iigs.info/doc/docos.htm)written by Apple  compiled/archived by Arnaud Brossard\  type of document : PDF\  source : [Apple II / Apple IIgs website](http://www.apple-iigs.info/) - title: BENEATH APPLE DOS url: http://www.apple-iigs.info/doc/docos.htm cover: /media/museum/docs/couvs/apple2_beneath-apple-dos.jpg text: |- [**BENEATH APPLE DOS**](http://www.apple-iigs.info/doc/docos.htm)written by Don Worth & Pieter Lechner  compiled/archived by Arnaud Brossard\  type of document : PDF\  source : [Apple II / Apple IIgs website](http://www.apple-iigs.info/) - title: BENEATH APPLE PRO DOS url: http://www.apple-iigs.info/doc/docos.htm cover: /media/museum/docs/couvs/apple2_beneath-apple-prodos.jpg text: |- [**BENEATH APPLE PRO DOS**](http://www.apple-iigs.info/doc/docos.htm)written by Don Worth & Pieter Lechner  compiled/archived by Arnaud Brossard\  type of document : PDF\  source : [Apple II / Apple IIgs website](http://www.apple-iigs.info/) - title: PRODOS USER'S MANUAL url: http://www.apple-iigs.info/doc/docos.htm cover: /media/museum/docs/couvs/apple2_prodos-user-manual.jpg text: |- [**PRODOS USER'S MANUAL**](http://www.apple-iigs.info/doc/docos.htm)written by Apple  compiled/archived by Arnaud Brossard\  type of document : PDF\  source : [Apple II / Apple IIgs website](http://www.apple-iigs.info/) - title: PRODOS SUPPLEMENT TO THE APPLE IIE OWNER'S MANUAL url: http://www.apple-iigs.info/doc/docos.htm cover: /media/museum/docs/couvs/apple2_prodos-supplement.jpg text: |- [**PRODOS SUPPLEMENT TO THE APPLE IIE OWNER'S MANUAL**](http://www.apple-iigs.info/doc/docos.htm)written by Apple  compiled/archived by Arnaud Brossard\  type of document : PDF\  source : [Apple II / Apple IIgs website](http://www.apple-iigs.info/) - title: APPLE 5.25 DRIVE - OWNER'S GUIDE url: http://www.apple-iigs.info/doc/docacc.htm cover: /media/museum/docs/couvs/apple2_5-25-disk-drive_owners-manual.jpg text: |- [**APPLE 5.25 DRIVE - OWNER'S GUIDE**](http://www.apple-iigs.info/doc/docacc.htm)written by Apple  compiled/archived by Arnaud Brossard\  type of document : PDF\  source : [Apple II / Apple IIgs website](http://www.apple-iigs.info/) - title: APPLE 3.5 DRIVE - OWNER'S GUIDE url: http://www.apple-iigs.info/doc/docacc.htm cover: /media/museum/docs/couvs/apple2_3-5-disk-drive_owners-manual.jpg text: |- [**APPLE 3.5 DRIVE - OWNER'S GUIDE**](http://www.apple-iigs.info/doc/docacc.htm)written by Apple  compiled/archived by Arnaud Brossard\  type of document : PDF\  source : [Apple II / Apple IIgs website](http://www.apple-iigs.info/) - title: APPLE 3.5 DRIVE CONTROLLER CARD - OWNER'S GUIDE url: http://www.apple-iigs.info/doc/docacc.htm cover: /media/museum/docs/couvs/apple2_controller-card.jpg text: |- [**APPLE 3.5 DRIVE CONTROLLER CARD - OWNER'S GUIDE**](http://www.apple-iigs.info/doc/docacc.htm)written by Apple  compiled/archived by Arnaud Brossard\  type of document : PDF\  source : [Apple II / Apple IIgs website](http://www.apple-iigs.info/) - title: APPLE II SUPER SERIAL CARD - INSTALLATION AND OPERATING MANUAL url: http://www.apple-iigs.info/doc/docacc.htm cover: /media/museum/docs/couvs/apple2_super-serial-card.jpg text: |- [**APPLE II SUPER SERIAL CARD - INSTALLATION AND OPERATING MANUAL**](http://www.apple-iigs.info/doc/docacc.htm)written by Apple  compiled/archived by Arnaud Brossard\  type of document : PDF\  source : [Apple II / Apple IIgs website](http://www.apple-iigs.info/) - title: APPLE II PARALLEL PRINTER INTERFACE CARD - INSTALLATION AND OPERATING MANUAL url: http://www.apple-iigs.info/doc/docacc.htm cover: /media/museum/docs/couvs/apple2_parallel-printer-interface.jpg text: |- [**APPLE II PARALLEL PRINTER INTERFACE CARD - INSTALLATION AND OPERATING MANUAL**](http://www.apple-iigs.info/doc/docacc.htm)written by Apple  compiled/archived by Arnaud Brossard\  type of document : PDF\  source : [Apple II / Apple IIgs website](http://www.apple-iigs.info/) - title: APPLE II 80-COLUMN TEXT CARD MANUAL url: http://www.apple-iigs.info/doc/docacc.htm cover: /media/museum/docs/couvs/apple2_80c-text-card.jpg text: |- [**APPLE II 80-COLUMN TEXT CARD MANUAL**](http://www.apple-iigs.info/doc/docacc.htm)written by Apple  compiled/archived by Arnaud Brossard\  type of document : PDF\  source : [Apple II / Apple IIgs website](http://www.apple-iigs.info/) - title: APPLE II 80-COLUMN TEXT CARD MANUAL SUPPLEMENT url: http://www.apple-iigs.info/doc/docacc.htm cover: /media/museum/docs/couvs/apple2_80c-text-card_supplement.jpg text: |- [**APPLE II 80-COLUMN TEXT CARD MANUAL SUPPLEMENT**](http://www.apple-iigs.info/doc/docacc.htm)written by Apple  compiled/archived by Arnaud Brossard\  type of document : PDF\  source : [Apple II / Apple IIgs website](http://www.apple-iigs.info/) - title: Z80 PLUS CARD - USER MANUAL url: http://www.apple-iigs.info/doc/docacc.htm cover: /media/museum/docs/couvs/apple2_z80-plus.jpg text: |- [**Z80 PLUS CARD - USER MANUAL**](http://www.apple-iigs.info/doc/docacc.htm)written by Applied Engineering  compiled/archived by Arnaud Brossard\  type of document : PDF\  source : [Apple II / Apple IIgs website](http://www.apple-iigs.info/) - title: APPLE JOYSTICK IIE AND IIC - USER'S INSTRUCTIONS url: http://www.apple-iigs.info/doc/docacc.htm cover: /media/museum/docs/couvs/apple2_joystick_users_manual.jpg text: |- [**APPLE JOYSTICK IIE AND IIC - USER'S INSTRUCTIONS**](http://www.apple-iigs.info/doc/docacc.htm)written by Apple  compiled/archived by Arnaud Brossard\  type of document : PDF\  source : [Apple II / Apple IIgs website](http://www.apple-iigs.info/) - title: APPLE II - APPLECOLOR RGB MONITOR OWNER'S GUIDE url: http://www.apple-iigs.info/doc/docacc.htm cover: /media/museum/docs/couvs/apple2_rgb-monitor.jpg text: |- [**APPLE II - APPLECOLOR RGB MONITOR OWNER'S GUIDE**](http://www.apple-iigs.info/doc/docacc.htm)written by Apple  compiled/archived by Arnaud Brossard\  type of document : PDF\  source : [Apple II / Apple IIgs website](http://www.apple-iigs.info/) videos: - title: Apple II videoclip url: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_SoWRCy21pY text: 'Length: 3 min 03 s' related: - /museum/apple-ii - /museum/apple-ii-571 - /museum/apple-ii-clones - /museum/apple-iic - /museum/apple-iic-plus - /museum/apple-iie-platinum - /museum/microdigital-tk-3000 oc_id: 83 source: url: https://web.archive.org/web/20230427065647/http://www.old-computers.com/museum/computer.asp?c=83 date: '2023-04-27' --- After having sold more than 750,000 Apple II and II+ systems, making it one of the best-selling brands in the global computing market, Apple released an updated version of the [II+](/museum/apple-ii/), the **Apple IIe** ('e' standing for enhanced). It also met with very great success and was widely used in schools (still in use nowadays in some places!). While retaining the previous model's capabilities and software library, the enhanced version featured a revised logic board, keyboard and case design. Since its launch back in 1977, the Apple had been revised 13 times, but never so drastically as with this model. The IIe used only 1/4 as many integrated circuits as the II+. Its keyboard featured 4 cursor keys and a lockable lid. It was originally delivered with DOS 3.3 (the Apple II operating system) and later with PRODOS. The Apple IIe borrowed some features from the [Apple III](/museum/apple-iii/), 80-column text and lowercase support. The Apple IIe was replaced with the **enhanced Apple IIe** in 1985, which had 128k RAM, 32k ROM, improved support for 80-column text and lowercase characters, and was powered by the 65C02 CPU, the same as the [Apple IIc](/museum/apple-iic/) one. Finally in 1987, Apple released the **Apple IIe Platinum**, also called Extended Keyboard IIe, which had a new keyboard and other minor hardware changes.