Apple IIc

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The Apple IIc (the C stands for compact) is the fourth iteration of the Apple II Series, and is wildly different model from the ones that came before.

It is a luggable machine, that could be carried around, just needing to be attached to a monitor and PSU at its destination.

The styling is far more like a Mac portable, with the grilled back and white casing, and was designed to be useable straight out of the box.

The Apple IIc was released in April 1984, at the Apple Forever event, and was promoted as Apple's intention to carry on with the Apple II series, and not drop it in favour of the Macintosh range of computers. 

This was not intended as a successor for the other Apple II machines, more a more portable, simpler computer, which lacked the expansion slots of the main model, but used Apple's Snow White design language. 

The machine for the time had a large memory at 128K, which could be expanded to 1MB, and twice the ROM of previous machines at 32K, and a 140K single sided 5.25-inch disk drive.

Our machine was kindly donated by Mark Maidment.

Manufacturer: Apple
Date: April 1984



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Apple IIc Manuals:

Item Manufacturer Date
Apple Parallel Printer Interface Card Installation and Operating Manual Apple Unknown
Apple II: Supplement to Owners Manual Apple Unknown
Apple II: Monitor II Users Manual Apple Unknown
Integer Basic Manual Apple Unknown
Apple II: DB Master (Digital Download) ???? Unknown
Apple II: Communications Interface Card Installation and Operating Manual Apple Unknown
Apple Parallel Printer Interface Card Installation and Operating Manual Apple 1978
Apple II: Applesoft Basic Programming Reference Manual Apple 1978
Apple II The Applesoft Tutorial Apple 1979
Apple II: Reference Manual Apple 1979
Apple II: Graphics Tablet Operation & Reference Manual Apple 1979
Apple II: Reference Manual Apple 1979
Apple II: DOS 3.2 Do's & Don'ts of DOS Apple 1979
Apple II: The Applesoft Tutorial Apple 1979
Apple Pascal Operating System Reference Manual Apple 1980
Model 7490A GPIB Interface for Apple II Owners Manual California Computer Systems 1980
Apple II: Apple Fortran Language Reference Manual  Apple 1980
Apple II: Apple Pascal Language Reference Manual Apple 1980
Apple II: Apple Pascal Operating System Reference Manual Apple 1980
Apple II Super Serial Card Apple 1981
Apple III: Pascal - Introduction, Filer, and Editor Apple 1981
Apple II: The DOS Manual (DOS 3.3) Apple 1981
Apple II: Apple Language System Installation and Operation Manual Apple 1981
Apple III: Visicalc III User's Manual Apple 1982
Copy II Plus 4.0 Disk Utility System Apple 1982
Apple IIe: Owner's Manual Apple 1982
Apple II: DOS Programmer's Manual Apple 1982
Accelerator II for Apple II and II Plus Saturn Systems 1983
Apple IIe: Owners Manual Apple 1985
GEOS Graphic Environment Operating System Version 2.0 Berkeley Softworks 1986

Apple IIc Articles:

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Memories - MZ80B - Fond Memories Unknown
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John Page: My time at LEO 2022

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Personal Computer World - June 1979 Jun 1979
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Byte October 1986 16 Sep 2009

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This exhibit has a reference ID of CH4828. Please quote this reference ID in any communication with the Centre for Computing History.

 

Apple IIc

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