| APPLE IIc |
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APPLE IIc |
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| MANUFACTURER |
Apple |
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Transportable |
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| ORIGIN |
U.S.A. |
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| YEAR |
April 1984 |
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| END OF PRODUCTION |
1990 |
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| BUILT IN LANGUAGE |
AppleSoft BASIC |
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| KEYBOARD |
Full-stroke 62 keys with arrows keys |
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| CPU |
MOS 65c02 |
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| RAM |
128 KB (in two 64K banks, only one of which can be addressed at a time) |
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| TEXT MODES |
40 or 80? chars. x 24 lines |
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| GRAPHIC MODES |
(only the full screen modes are listed here) : 40 x 48 (16 col) / 80 x 48 (16 col) / 280 x 192 (6 col) / 140 x 192 (16 col) / 560 x 192 (mono) |
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| COLORS |
16 maximum |
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| SOUND |
one channel. Built-in speaker |
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| SIZE / WEIGHT |
29(W) x 31(D) x 6(H) cm. |
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| I/O PORTS |
monitor or composite monitor, Joystick/Mouse, RGB video output, external floppy disk, RS232c (x2) |
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| BUILT IN MEDIA |
one 5.25'' disk drive |
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| OS |
DOS 3.3, ProDOS, UCSD Pascal |
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| POWER SUPPLY |
External 12 volt power supply unit |
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| PRICE |
$1,300 - £925 |
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| SYSTEM |
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| PERIPHERALS |
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System with Apple mouse and an external 5" Floppy disc drive unit coming from VTL in Hong-Kong, the same company that made the Spectravideo systems |
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| KEYBOARD CLOSE-UP |
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| REAR CONNECTORS |
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Note the handle fitted into the back of the case.
**(1)** Mouse / Joystick DB89 connector\
**(2)** Serial 1 (Modem) DIN plug\
**(3)** RGB output DB15 connector\
**(4)** Composite video RCA plug\
**(5)** External floppy disc unit DB19 connector\
**(6)** Serial 2 (Printer) DIN plug\
**(7)** External power supply unit male DIN plug\
**(8)** Power switch\
**(9)** Audio output jack and volume adjustement |
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| INSIDE |
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The majority of the inside of the case is taken by the japanese 5" floppy disc drive. |
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| MOTHERBOARD EXPLAINED |
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The Apple IIC is the same system as an Apple IIe equiped with 5 expansion cards
**(1)** First serial RS 232 connector, mainly intended for the Apple Image Writer printer.\
**(2)** Internal floppy disc drive connector\
(3) External floppy disc unit DB19 connector\
**(4)** Monochrome composite video output RCA plug\
**(5)** RGB video output DB15 connector\
**(6)** Video chip\
**(7)** Second serial RS 232 connector, mainly intended for an external modem\
**(8)** Joystick or mouse DB9 connector\
**(9)** Character generator ROM\
**(10)** 16 chips hold the 128 KB of RAM\
**(11)** Low-power 65C02 processor. Here a NCR version\
**(12)** Memory management custom chip\
**(13)** 16 KB operating system and AppleSoft BASIC ROMs. Basic is automatically loaded if the drive is empty when turning on the computer.\
**(14)** I/O chips, in charge of various input/outputs: keyboard, sound, joystick\
**(15)** Sound output jack and volume knob\
**(16)** Keyboard connector\
**(17)** UART 6551 chips in charge of Serial 1 and 2 interfaces\
**(18)** Power regulation unit provides various voltages inside the computer. An external transformer provides a 12 volt power.\
**(19)** Power DIN plug and switch. |
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| FRENCH ADVERT (JAN. 1985) |
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"It's him"
This is not an Apple official advert, but from french distributor called Micro Informatique Diffusion (MID) |
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| FRENCH AD (JAN. 1985) |
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"I met Apple IIc"
French advert from MAJUSCULE distributor. |
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| PORTAC |
Autonome monitor |
This ugly monitor has a lead battery which gives the Apple IIc autonomy (finally !) lasting 4 hours. The IIc becomes then what it was meant to be : a portable computer!
The screen is 7" wide but has a better resolution than the original Apple monitor. This jewel cost 470 Euros in 1984 (France). |
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| EXTERNAL 5 |
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Specially made for the IIc system. Made by **LTL** in Hong-Kong, the same company that made the **Spectravideo** computer series. |
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| WORKSTATION CARD |
Appletalk card |
This card is used to connect an Apple IIe to a localtalk network. |
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| Z80 SOFTCARD ADVERT |
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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. |
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| Z80 SOFTCARD |
Full package |
The card was designed by Burtronix of Orange, California.
Thanks to **Steve Perry** |
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| MICROSOFT RAMCARD ADVERT (1982) |
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Together with the Softcard, the Ramcard turned the Apple II into a 56 KB CP/M system. |
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| JOYSTICKS |
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Two Apple joysticks for IIe and IIc versions, and a clone version with a fire button made by CH Products, San Marco, California. |
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| ANALOG HANDCONTROLLERS |
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| HAND CONTROLLERS |
Box |
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| JOY STICK |
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| GRAPHIC TABLET |
& its card |
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| KEYPAD |
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| DYNATYPER |
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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 |
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| ECHO SPEECH PROCESSOR II |
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| ROLAND CMU-500 INTERFACE |
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This item, a Roland Compumusic CMU-500 Apple II Interface, was used to connect musical instruments to the Apple II series of computers ! |
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| ECHO II |
speech/music/sound synthesizer |
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| ACOUSTIC COUPLER |
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| EARLY APPLE PRINTER |
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| APPLE PANIC |
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| AZTEC |
Title screen |
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| DRAGON FIRE |
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| DRAGON FIRE |
2nd screen |
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| DROL |
Excellent game ! |
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| KARATEKA |
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| LODE RUNNER |
A great classic |
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| MARBLE MADNESS |
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| MINER 2049ER |
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| MONTEZUMA REVENGE |
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| STAR LEAGUE BASEBALL |
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| APPLESOFT COMPILER |
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Also called TASC or AppleSoft Version 3, the AppleSoft Basic Compiler could make use of extended memory on 128K versions |
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| Virtual Apple |
http://www.virtualapple.com/ |
Other platform |
This web site uses an ActiveX application and Apple IIgs emulator to automatically download and play most Apple 2 disk images online! |
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| Apple II History |
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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. |
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| Apple2.org |
http://www.apple2.org/ |
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. |
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| APPLE II REFERENCE MANUAL (JANUARY 1978) |
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**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 :** |
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