apple a day • 1979-1983 - I HEART TO BLOG

apple a day • 1979-1983

Published 4.03.2006 by a•pril | E-mail this post

APPLE II+

"Essentially an updated version of the Apple II, the II+ came with 48K RAM, and a new auto-start ROM for easier start-up and screen editing. It also included a new flavor of Basic in the ROM: a floating point version written by a new company called Microsoft. It was released in June 1978 and retailed for $1,195. The II+ was sold in Europe as the II europlus, which could display video in European PAL format, and had ESC sequences for European letters. It was replaced by the Apple IIe in 1983." (photo credit: Personal Computing magazine, Nov. 1984)

CPU
CPU: MOS Technology/SynerTek 6502
CPU Speed: 1 MHz
FPU: none
Bus Speed: 1 MHz
Data Path: 8 bit
ROM: 12 kB
Onboard RAM: 48 kB
RAM slots: 1st expansion slot can be used
Maximum RAM: 64 kB
Expansion Slots: 8 proprietary

Video
Max Resolution: 6 color at 280x192, 4-bit color at 40x48

Storage
Floppy Drive: optional

Input/Output
Serial: optional expansion card
Speaker: mono

Miscellaneous
Codename: ?
Introduced: 1979
Terminated: 1983

This byte of Apple's history from Wired's "30 Years of Apple Products."