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any reason why this article writes "https:///" instead of "III"? -- Tarquin 18:43 Feb 9, 2003 (UTC)
It was standard form when referring to the pre-Macintosh Apple machines, intended to recall the styling of the machines' logos. "Apple II" was generally written "Apple ][" and the Apple III used slashes.
Apple switched to slashes for the II series as well around the time the //c was introduced. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 69.125.110.223 ( talk) 21:39, 14 December 2007 (UTC)
Apple Computer also made a 20-megabyte Profile that sold for $3,500.
That figures out to $175 per megabyte by yesterday’s standards! My computer today is 250 gigabyte. Lets see, 250 gigabyte at a cost of $175.00 would be about $43,750,000. I would say buying a hard drive today for a couple of hundreds bucks is a bargain. Thank god for technology.
I owned an Apple /// Business computer with a 20 megabyte Profile and used it over 10 years, well up into the nineties. Later I only used the machine for a couple of jobs as time went on. It sat in our spare office. I had become so accustomed to using its flagship software “Three EZ Pieces” and Apple Business Basic (ABB) that I kept on using it. It did things that the newer computers didn’t. I wrote one program that would fill out invoices. The printer would imprint through four carbon copies. Before I wrote that program we filled out our invoices on the IBM Selectric typewriter that cost $800.00. The problem with the Selectric typewriter was that when a mistake was made, it messed up 4 carbon copies and the whiteout look unprofessional. The Apple /// and ABB made office life much better. I also wrote an industrial engineering program AutoCAM with Apple Business Basic that did “cam layout” for Brown & Sharpe Screw Machines in just a few minutes (saved an hour over conventional methods) and then later with Visual Basic 1.0 (on an HP) when it first came out, and now written in Visual Basic 6.0. I also wrote a payroll, and a quoting program for the Apple /// machine and used it in my company. I thought it should be mentioned that the Apple /// came with a PROFILE with a capacity of 20 mgs at a cost of $3,500. I noticed on the front page the also made a 5 meg. My cost for the Apple /// with CRT, CPU, Profile 20 meg, printer and some software was about $9,000. Available software was scarce and SLOW. We never used the accounting program because it would take forever just to switch out of receivables to payables. That was why I was motivated to learn ABB. When I got it, it sat in a corner on the floor for about 6 months because no one knew how to run it. But once I got started with Three EZ Pieces and Learning Apple Business Basic, I was hooked. I think I still have some books and software round here for that machine. KAS 14:01, 29 May 2006 (UTC)
The operating system was seriously called SOS? That's too funny to be true! 72.94.2.65 00:55, 6 July 2007 (UTC)
The more I learn about the Apple III, IIe and IIGS, the more I believe the distinction to oust the III from the Apple II family is unreasonable. The fact is, Apple intended the III to be the successor to the II, in exactly the same way the IIGS was positioned to replace the IIe. Unlike the IIGS at some point Apple decided the III should be perceived as a completely different machine that had nothing to do with the II and why shouldn't it, it was! Having said that, the IIGS was also a completely different machine, but Apple took the opposite strategy and basically tricked the II community by calling it a "II". The IIGS though, unlike the III, allowed the II emulation (and it was emulation, nothing about the IIGS hardware would run Apple II software natively) to utilize the full power of the IIGS, whereas the III intentionally crippled the ability of the II software to use more than standard II Plus specs. Otherwise, the two computers filled exactly the same niche in Apple's II family at different times, names notwithstanding. Like the IIGS to the IIe, had the III not been plagued with problems, it likely would have eventually replaced the II Plus and through its backward compatibility, JUST LIKE THE IIGS, eventually become the successor. It might also have changed their place in history. Nevertheless, as it played out, the IIGS was a logical successor to convert text-based users into GUIs and left unimpeded, it would have ultimately converted all IIe users and I would have expected it to eventually become a IIGS card for the Power Mac line, instead. Had the III been successful, the IIGS would have likely never happened and the III would have gone straight to a Mac card. What I'm saying here is, the III is a different family than the IIe in name only, just like the IIGS is the same family in name only. These distinctions must not be lost due to the passion for the platform most II users express.-- Mac128 ( talk) 04:48, 26 June 2008 (UTC)
The info box claims that the /// was discontinued in April 1984, but toward the end of the Apple III Plus paragraph it's listed as September 1985. Which is it? AngusCA ( talk) 21:07, 16 May 2009 (UTC)
"The Apple III (often rendered as Apple ///) ..."
Italics constitute an alternate name?? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 74.92.174.105 ( talk) 18:31, 31 October 2011 (UTC)
An explanation of my recent edit about the keyboard issue.
Somebody seems to have inferred that the uppercase-only limitations of the Apple II were due to the influence of Teletype keyboards. Teletypes did influence the design of Apple keyboards (and PC keyboards, for that matter; that's why you have a control key) but this has nothing to with the the Apple II limitation, which stemmed from the extra resources needed to represent a full ASCII character set. Note that the first Teletypes that supported mixed case were introduced a full decade before the Apple II. Isaac Rabinovitch ( talk) 03:26, 9 June 2016 (UTC)
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any reason why this article writes "https:///" instead of "III"? -- Tarquin 18:43 Feb 9, 2003 (UTC)
It was standard form when referring to the pre-Macintosh Apple machines, intended to recall the styling of the machines' logos. "Apple II" was generally written "Apple ][" and the Apple III used slashes.
Apple switched to slashes for the II series as well around the time the //c was introduced. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 69.125.110.223 ( talk) 21:39, 14 December 2007 (UTC)
Apple Computer also made a 20-megabyte Profile that sold for $3,500.
That figures out to $175 per megabyte by yesterday’s standards! My computer today is 250 gigabyte. Lets see, 250 gigabyte at a cost of $175.00 would be about $43,750,000. I would say buying a hard drive today for a couple of hundreds bucks is a bargain. Thank god for technology.
I owned an Apple /// Business computer with a 20 megabyte Profile and used it over 10 years, well up into the nineties. Later I only used the machine for a couple of jobs as time went on. It sat in our spare office. I had become so accustomed to using its flagship software “Three EZ Pieces” and Apple Business Basic (ABB) that I kept on using it. It did things that the newer computers didn’t. I wrote one program that would fill out invoices. The printer would imprint through four carbon copies. Before I wrote that program we filled out our invoices on the IBM Selectric typewriter that cost $800.00. The problem with the Selectric typewriter was that when a mistake was made, it messed up 4 carbon copies and the whiteout look unprofessional. The Apple /// and ABB made office life much better. I also wrote an industrial engineering program AutoCAM with Apple Business Basic that did “cam layout” for Brown & Sharpe Screw Machines in just a few minutes (saved an hour over conventional methods) and then later with Visual Basic 1.0 (on an HP) when it first came out, and now written in Visual Basic 6.0. I also wrote a payroll, and a quoting program for the Apple /// machine and used it in my company. I thought it should be mentioned that the Apple /// came with a PROFILE with a capacity of 20 mgs at a cost of $3,500. I noticed on the front page the also made a 5 meg. My cost for the Apple /// with CRT, CPU, Profile 20 meg, printer and some software was about $9,000. Available software was scarce and SLOW. We never used the accounting program because it would take forever just to switch out of receivables to payables. That was why I was motivated to learn ABB. When I got it, it sat in a corner on the floor for about 6 months because no one knew how to run it. But once I got started with Three EZ Pieces and Learning Apple Business Basic, I was hooked. I think I still have some books and software round here for that machine. KAS 14:01, 29 May 2006 (UTC)
The operating system was seriously called SOS? That's too funny to be true! 72.94.2.65 00:55, 6 July 2007 (UTC)
The more I learn about the Apple III, IIe and IIGS, the more I believe the distinction to oust the III from the Apple II family is unreasonable. The fact is, Apple intended the III to be the successor to the II, in exactly the same way the IIGS was positioned to replace the IIe. Unlike the IIGS at some point Apple decided the III should be perceived as a completely different machine that had nothing to do with the II and why shouldn't it, it was! Having said that, the IIGS was also a completely different machine, but Apple took the opposite strategy and basically tricked the II community by calling it a "II". The IIGS though, unlike the III, allowed the II emulation (and it was emulation, nothing about the IIGS hardware would run Apple II software natively) to utilize the full power of the IIGS, whereas the III intentionally crippled the ability of the II software to use more than standard II Plus specs. Otherwise, the two computers filled exactly the same niche in Apple's II family at different times, names notwithstanding. Like the IIGS to the IIe, had the III not been plagued with problems, it likely would have eventually replaced the II Plus and through its backward compatibility, JUST LIKE THE IIGS, eventually become the successor. It might also have changed their place in history. Nevertheless, as it played out, the IIGS was a logical successor to convert text-based users into GUIs and left unimpeded, it would have ultimately converted all IIe users and I would have expected it to eventually become a IIGS card for the Power Mac line, instead. Had the III been successful, the IIGS would have likely never happened and the III would have gone straight to a Mac card. What I'm saying here is, the III is a different family than the IIe in name only, just like the IIGS is the same family in name only. These distinctions must not be lost due to the passion for the platform most II users express.-- Mac128 ( talk) 04:48, 26 June 2008 (UTC)
The info box claims that the /// was discontinued in April 1984, but toward the end of the Apple III Plus paragraph it's listed as September 1985. Which is it? AngusCA ( talk) 21:07, 16 May 2009 (UTC)
"The Apple III (often rendered as Apple ///) ..."
Italics constitute an alternate name?? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 74.92.174.105 ( talk) 18:31, 31 October 2011 (UTC)
An explanation of my recent edit about the keyboard issue.
Somebody seems to have inferred that the uppercase-only limitations of the Apple II were due to the influence of Teletype keyboards. Teletypes did influence the design of Apple keyboards (and PC keyboards, for that matter; that's why you have a control key) but this has nothing to with the the Apple II limitation, which stemmed from the extra resources needed to represent a full ASCII character set. Note that the first Teletypes that supported mixed case were introduced a full decade before the Apple II. Isaac Rabinovitch ( talk) 03:26, 9 June 2016 (UTC)
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