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Apple IIe
“Enhanced in name, eternal in our hearts — lowercase letters never looked so good.”
“It put color graphics and VisiCalc in a plastic case, and never stopped being useful.”
The Apple II, designed by Steve Wozniak and first sold on June 10, 1977, was the complete computer the bare-board Apple I had never been: a plastic case, a built-in keyboard, color graphics, and open architecture. Alongside the Commodore PET 2001 and the TRS-80, it formed the 1977 Trinity that established the home computer market. People loved it in schools, businesses, and homes alike, especially after VisiCalc arri
The line evolved through the Apple II Plus, IIe, IIc, IIc Plus, and IIGS, with the IIe standing as the best-selling model of the family. It was still in production in 1993, when the series was finally discontinued after sixteen years. It left behind a generation that learned to type on its keyboard and a software world it helped build.
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