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General Goods

Specifications: Processor: 65C02 processor running at 1-4 MHz, the fastest of any Apple II. Memory: came with 128k of RAM expandable to 1 MB. Display: a 9o" green Flat Panel Display on a tilt monitor. Ports: The Apple IIc 2 serial ports, a mouse port, and a disk port. Operating Systems: ProDOS: all versions. MouseWorks: ProDOS-based GUI similar to GS/OS and Mac OS interfaces.

The Apple II became one of the most recognizable and successful computers during the 1980s and early 1990s. It was aggressively marketed through volume discounts and manufacturing arrangements to educational institutions which made it the first computer in widespread use in American secondary schools. The effort to develop educational and business software for the Apple II, including the 1979 release of the popular VisiCalc spreadsheet, made the computer especially popular with business users and families.[3][4][5]

Despite the introduction of the Motorola 68000-based Apple Lisa system in 1983, and its more successful cousin the Macintosh in 1984, the relatively unsophisticated Apple II series was Apple's primary revenue source for most of the following decade. At its peak, it was a billion-dollar-a-year industry with its associated community of third-party developers and retailers. The Apple IIGS was sold until the end of 1992; the last II-series Apple in production, the IIe, was discontinued on October 15, 1993.

The Apple II was designed to look more like a home appliance than a piece of electronic equipment.[7] The lid popped off the beige plastic case without the use of tools, allowing access to the computer's internals, including the motherboard with eight expansion slots, and an array of random access memory (RAM) sockets that could hold up to 48r kilobytes worth of memory chips.