| ID | Apple IIe |
|---|---|
| Short Name | |
| Name | IIe |
| Company | Apple |
| Description | After having sold more than 750,000 Apple II and II+ systems, making it one of the best-selling brands in the global computing market, Apple released an updated version of the II+, the Apple IIe ('e' standing for enhanced). It also met with very great success and was widely used in schools (still in use nowadays in some places!). While retaining the previous model's capabilities and software library, the enhanced version featured a revised logic board, keyboard and case design. Since its launch back in 1977, the Apple had been revised 13 times, but never so drastically as with this model. The IIe used only 1/4 as many integrated circuits as the II+. Its keyboard featured 4 cursor keys and a lockable lid. It was originally delivered with DOS 3.3 (the Apple II operating system) and later with PRODOS. The Apple IIe borrowed some features from the Apple III, 80-column text and lowercase support. The Apple IIe was replaced with the enhanced Apple IIe in 1985, which had 128k RAM, 32k ROM, improved support for 80-column text and lowercase characters, and was powered by the 65C02 CPU, the same as the Apple IIc one. Finally in 1987, Apple released the Apple IIe Platinum, also called Extended Keyboard IIe, which had a new keyboard and other minor hardware changes. |
| Date Available | January 1983 |
| Type | Computer |
| Emulators |
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| Alternate Names |
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"description": "After having sold more than 750,000 Apple II and II+ systems, making it one of the best-selling brands in the global computing market, Apple released an updated version of the <a href=\"computer.asp?c=68\">II+</a>, the <b>Apple IIe</b> ('e' standing for enhanced).\nIt also met with very great success and was widely used in schools (still in use nowadays in some places!). \nWhile retaining the previous model's capabilities and software library, the enhanced version featured a revised logic board, keyboard and case design. Since its launch back in 1977, the Apple had been revised 13 times, but never so drastically as with this model. The IIe used only 1/4 as many integrated circuits as the II+. Its keyboard featured 4 cursor keys and a lockable lid.\nIt was originally delivered with DOS 3.3 (the Apple II operating system) and later with PRODOS. The Apple IIe borrowed some features from the <a href=\"computer.asp?c=72\">Apple III</a>, 80-column text and lowercase support.\nThe Apple IIe was replaced with the <b>enhanced Apple IIe</b> in 1985, which had 128k RAM, 32k ROM, improved support for 80-column text and lowercase characters, and was powered by the 65C02 CPU, the same as the <a href=\"computer.asp?c=69\">Apple IIc</a> one.\nFinally in 1987, Apple released the <b>Apple IIe Platinum</b>, also called Extended Keyboard IIe, which had a new keyboard and other minor hardware changes.",
"name": "APPLE IIe",
"manufacturer": "Apple",
"type": "Home Computer",
"origin": "U.S.A.",
"year": "January 1983",
"end_of_production": "1993",
"built_in_language": "Basic",
"keyboard": "Full stroke 52 key with cursor keys",
"cpu": "MOS 65c02",
"speed": "1.02 MHz",
"ram": "64 KB",
"rom": "16 KB",
"text_modes": "40 x 24 / 80 x 24 (with 80 columns card)",
"graphic_modes": "40 x 40-48 (16 col), 280 x 160-192 (6 col), 560 x 160-192 (2 col)",
"colors": "16 maximum",
"sound": "one channel - Built-in speaker",
"size_weight": "39.4 (W) x 45.7 (D) x 11.4 (H)",
"io_ports": "Monitor, Internal Slots (6), Memory slot, Tape, Joystick",
"built_in_media": "None",
"os": "DOS 3.3 or ProDOS<br>Even CP/M and MS-DOS with optional cards",
"power_supply": "Built-in switching power supply unit",
"peripherals": "Lots of expansion cards and peripherals",
"price": "?1270",
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{
"name": "IIe case ",
"image": "https://www.old-computers.com/museum/photos/Apple_2e_Case_s1.jpg",
"description": ""
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{
"name": "IIe logo ",
"image": "https://www.old-computers.com/museum/photos/Apple_2e_Logo_s1.jpg",
"description": ""
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{
"name": "Complete system ",
"image": "https://www.old-computers.com/museum/photos/Apple_2e_CompleteSys_s1.jpg",
"description": "Apple IIe along with the Apple monochrome monitor and two FDD units."
},
{
"name": "Inside ",
"image": "https://www.old-computers.com/museum/photos/Apple_2e_Inside_1.jpg",
"description": ""
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{
"name": "Motherboard explaine... ",
"image": "https://www.old-computers.com/museum/photos/Apple_2e_MotherBoard_1.jpg",
"description": "The Apple IIe board represents a major hardware improvement, compared to previous Apple II boards. Two specialized chips replace more than 60 circuits, and an additional slot makes it easier to upgrade the user RAM to 128 Kb.\r\n<br><br>\r\n<b>(1)</b> Composite video Output for B&W monitor.<br>\r\n<b>(2)</b> Auxiliary video connector. <br>\r\n<b>(3)</b> Joystick connector. <br>\r\n<b>(4)</b> Chipset in charge of input-outputs, called IOU . <br>\r\n<b>(5)</b> Keyboard connector. <br>\r\n<b>(6)</b> Mouse connector. <br>\r\n<b>(7)</b> ROM memory holding the keyboard character generator. This circuit is specific to each country and keyboard. <br>\r\n<b>(8)</b> ROM memory holding the display character generator.<br>\r\n<b>(9)</b> 64 KB user RAM memory. <br>\r\n<b>(10)</b> Additional expansion connector linked to port 3. Specific to APPLE IIe and intended for the 64 KB expansion memory card. <br>\r\n<b>(11)</b> Integrated loudspeaker connector. <br>\r\n<b>(12)</b> 8-bit 6502 microprocessor. <br>\r\n<b>(13)</b> Specialised chipset called MMU, in charge of the user RAM and 80-column mode management.<br>\r\n<b>(14)</b> Power supply connector.<br>\r\n<b>(15)</b> Expansion card slot Nr. 1, generally reserved for the printer.<br>\r\n<b>(16)</b> Expansion card slot Nr. 7, generally reserved for video cards. <br>\r\n<b>(17)</b> Analog input connector, generally reserved for Apple or compatible joysticks.<br>\r\n<b>(18)</b> Tape recorder (data input) socket.<br>\r\n<b>(19)</b> Tape recorder (data output) socket."
},
{
"name": "Motherboard prototyp... ",
"image": "https://www.old-computers.com/museum/photos/Apple_2e_ProtoBoard_1.jpg",
"description": "One of the Apple IIe engineering prototype wire-wrap boards.<br>\r\nThe custom chips (IOU and MMU) are emulated with a whole lot of standard logic 7400-series chips located on the left board.<br>\r\nThe right board is the Apple IIe main board prototype.\r\n "
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{
"name": "The 256 KB expansion... ",
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"description": ""
},
{
"name": "The Apple II emulati... ",
"image": "https://www.old-computers.com/museum/photos/Ct2lc2.jpg",
"description": ""
},
{
"name": "The Macintosh LC emu... ",
"image": "https://www.old-computers.com/museum/photos/Ct2lc1.jpg",
"description": "Shortly after Apple stopped the production of the Apple IIe, they replaced it with the Macintosh LC as a \"home\" computer. To use Apple IIe software on the Mac LC, Apple developed a small Apple IIe emulation card (left photo). In the right photo, you can see Apple IIe software running on the Mac LC. "
},
{
"name": "IIgs upgrade #1 ",
"image": "https://www.old-computers.com/museum/photos/Apple_2e_Gs_MotherBoard_1.jpg",
"description": "When the Apple IIgs was first launched, Apple offered for a short time an upgrade kit allowing Apple IIe owners to convert their system to a IIgs version while keeping the same case. The kit included a new base designed to match the IIgs motherboard, an external numeric keypad and a label kit for the case lid. \t"
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"image": "https://www.old-computers.com/museum/photos/Apple_2e_Gs_back_1.jpg",
"description": "The new back panel with Apple IIgs specific connectors"
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"name": "IIgs upgrade #3 ",
"image": "https://www.old-computers.com/museum/photos/Apple_2e_Gs_Label_1.jpg",
"description": "Yes, it's an Apple IIgs!"
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"name": "IIgs upgrade #4 ",
"image": "https://www.old-computers.com/museum/photos/Apple_2e_Gs_NumPad_1.jpg",
"description": "The numeric keypad was part of the upgrade kit."
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"hardware": [
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"name": "Workstation Card Appletalk card",
"image": "https://www.old-computers.com/museum/hardware/apple_II_card_appletalk.jpg",
"description": "> Appletalk card<br>This card is used to connect an Apple IIe to a localtalk network. "
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"name": "Z80 Softcard advert",
"image": "https://www.old-computers.com/museum/hardware/Apple_II_Softcard_1.jpg",
"description": "The Z80 Softcard made the Apple II fully compatible with the CP/M operating system and allowed it to run the largest library of professional software of the time, including the Microsoft programming languages, among them the BASIC 5.0 interpreter. "
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"image": "https://www.old-computers.com/museum/hardware/Apple_II_Softcard_s1.jpg",
"description": "> Full package<br>The card was designed by Burtronix of Orange, California.\n<p class=\"petitgris\">Thanks to <b>Steve Perry</b></p>"
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"image": "https://www.old-computers.com/museum/hardware/Apple_II_Ramcard_1.jpg",
"description": "Together with the Softcard, the Ramcard turned the Apple II into a 56 KB CP/M system."
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"image": "https://www.old-computers.com/museum/hardware/Apple_II_Joystick_1.jpg",
"description": "Two Apple joysticks for IIe and IIc versions, and a clone version with a fire button made by CH Products, San Marco, California."
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{
"name": "Analog Handcontrollers",
"image": "https://www.old-computers.com/museum/hardware/Apple_2e_Handcontr_2.jpg",
"description": ""
},
{
"name": "Hand controllersBox",
"image": "https://www.old-computers.com/museum/hardware/apple_hand-controllers_box.jpg",
"description": "> Box<br>"
},
{
"name": "Joy Stick",
"image": "https://www.old-computers.com/museum/hardware/apple2_joy_stick.jpg",
"description": ""
},
{
"name": "Graphic Tablet& its card",
"image": "https://www.old-computers.com/museum/hardware/apple_apple2_graphic-tablet.jpg",
"description": "> & its card<br>"
},
{
"name": "Keypad",
"image": "https://www.old-computers.com/museum/hardware/apple_apple2_keypad.jpg",
"description": ""
},
{
"name": "Dynatyper",
"image": "https://www.old-computers.com/museum/hardware/Apple_II+_Dinatyper_1.jpg",
"description": "Here is the sale brochure of the Dynatyper, a strange and obscure printing device launched in 1980:<br><br><font color=\"#666666\">\nDynatyper is a new typewriter interface system designed to generate hard copy directly from computer output through any electric typewriter. It exploits the high quality and use of full upper and lower case characters of your electric typewriter. Users of small computer systems can now expand those systems into applications demanding high quality text, such as word processing.<br><br>\nConsisting of an array of coils positioned in the same pattern as the typewriter's keyboard. These coils are wired into an electrical decoding matrix. Designed to operate on voltage available from standard computers, the Dynatyper is easily installed without modification to your typewriter. Adjustments for different key heights are easy.<br><br>\nRochester Data provides interfaces and software for the <b>TRS-80 Level 1 & 2</b>, the <b>Apple II</b> and also a 6 bit <b>parallel interface</b> for general operation with other computers. The same interface board can be modified by jumper selection to eperate in any of the above modes...\n</font><p class=\"petitgris\">Thanks to <b>Bob Leedom</b> for information and pictures</p>"
},
{
"name": "Echo Speech Processor II",
"image": "https://www.old-computers.com/museum/hardware/apple_appleII_echoII_board.jpg",
"description": ""
},
{
"name": "Roland CMU-500 Interface",
"image": "https://www.old-computers.com/museum/hardware/apple_apple2_roland-cmu500_interface.jpg",
"description": "This item, a Roland Compumusic CMU-500 Apple II Interface, was used to connect musical instruments to the Apple II series of computers !"
},
{
"name": "Echo IIspeech/music/sound synthesizer",
"image": "https://www.old-computers.com/museum/hardware/apple_apple2_echo2-speech-synth_1.jpg",
"description": "> speech/music/sound synthesizer<br>"
},
{
"name": "Acoustic coupler",
"image": "https://www.old-computers.com/museum/hardware/apple_apple2_acoustic-coupler_1.jpg",
"description": ""
},
{
"name": "Early Apple printer",
"image": "https://www.old-computers.com/museum/hardware/apple_apple2_printer1.jpg",
"description": ""
},
{
"name": "DuodiskDual 5.25\" floppy drives unit",
"image": "https://www.old-computers.com/museum/hardware/Apple_2e_Duodisk_s1.jpg",
"description": "> Dual 5.25\" floppy drives unit<br>No innovation in this Duodisk released a few months after the Apple IIe. The Japanese slim drives are still sigle side and have the same capacity as the original Disk II, 143 KB divided in 35 tracks x 16 sectors x 256 bytes."
},
{
"name": "Amdisk 3Dual 3'' floppy disc unit",
"image": "https://www.old-computers.com/museum/hardware/Apple_2e_Amdisk3.jpg",
"description": "> Dual 3'' floppy disc unit<br>This first version of the Japanese Amdisk unit featured one or two 3\"/360 KB floppy disc drives. <br>\nBesides Apple IIe version, several versions were marketed for various computers: Commodore 64, Atari 520, Sinclair Spectrum...<br>\nLater, 3\" drives were replaced with 3.5\"/720 KB models."
}
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"name": "Apple Oasis",
"url": "http://www.geocities.com/APL24WIN/index.html",
"platform": "Windows",
"description": "Emulates Apple IIe system including hard disk, clock, CP/M card, etc."
},
{
"name": "AppleWin",
"url": "http://applewin.berlios.de/",
"platform": "Windows",
"description": "A great apple 2+ and apple 2e emulator for windows"
},
{
"name": "AppleWin",
"url": "http://www.jantzer-schmidt.de/applewin/",
"platform": "Windows",
"description": "Apple IIe emulator with source code in C++"
},
{
"name": "Bernie ][ the rescue",
"url": "http://www.bernie.gs/Bernie/",
"platform": "Apple",
"description": "(Available for BeOS too)"
},
{
"name": "Catakig",
"url": "http://www.radix.net/~cklipsch/ctkgdoc/",
"platform": "Apple",
"description": ""
},
{
"name": "YAE, Yet another Apple ][ Emulator",
"url": "http://quark.netfront.net:6502/",
"platform": "Unix / Linux",
"description": ""
},
{
"name": "The Official ShapeShifter Home Page",
"url": "http://www.uni-mainz.de/~bauec002/SSMain.html",
"platform": "Amiga OS",
"description": ""
},
{
"name": "PalmApple",
"url": "http://palmapple.sourceforge.net/",
"platform": "Other platform",
"description": "PalmApple is an open source Apple //e emulator for PalmOS PDAs"
},
{
"name": "Virtual Apple",
"url": "http://www.virtualapple.com/",
"platform": "Other platform",
"description": "This web site uses an ActiveX application and Apple IIgs emulator to automatically download and play most Apple 2 disk images online! "
},
{
"name": "Dapple",
"url": "http://sourceforge.net/projects/dapple/",
"platform": "Multiplatform",
"description": "Apple II (II+, IIe) emulator for DOS and Unix with C source code"
}
],
"links": [
{
"url": "computer.asp?st=1&c=68",
"name": "Apple - APPLE II",
"description": "A lot of documentations here !"
},
{
"url": "computer.asp?st=1&c=1031",
"name": "Apple - Apple II clones",
"description": "A detailed history of the Apple II computer, from start to finish, interspersed with history of Apple Computer, Inc., from the point of view of the Apple II user. Includes pictures."
},
{
"url": "computer.asp?st=1&c=571",
"name": "Apple - APPLE II+",
"description": "Please Ask the Expeirenced Apple II User!"
},
{
"url": "computer.asp?st=1&c=69",
"name": "Apple - APPLE IIc",
"description": "Over 1000 pictures of Apple II and other related hardware, articles, the Apple ][ FAQ, Transwarp and Zip GS accelerator upgrade mods, 3.5\" drive rebuilding, and lots more."
},
{
"url": "computer.asp?st=1&c=36",
"name": "Apple - APPLE IIc Plus",
"description": "Excellent site about all Apple models,clones,prototypes,etc... A must see !"
},
{
"url": "computer.asp?st=1&c=977",
"name": "Apple - APPLE IIe Platinum",
"description": "Wonderful site with plenty of information !"
},
{
"url": "computer.asp?st=1&c=947",
"name": "Microdigital - TK-3000",
"description": "Very complete information for each model"
},
{
"url": "http://www.wbwip.com/a2web/",
"name": "A2-Web!",
"description": "The URL says it all. Very interesting site"
},
{
"url": "http://www.cs.ruu.nl/wais/html/na-dir/apple2/emulators-faq/part1.html",
"name": "Apple ][ Emulator Resources Guide",
"description": "Binary postings for Apple 2 computer"
},
{
"url": "http://www.apple-iigs.info/home.htm",
"name": "Apple II - Apple II gs",
"description": "Emulators of Apple // systems"
},
{
"url": "http://apple2history.org/",
"name": "Apple II History",
"description": "Source code and discussion"
},
{
"url": "HTTP://WWW.MYSPACE.COM/135780133",
"name": "Apple II Q&A",
"description": "Discussion about Apple 2 computers"
},
{
"url": "http://www.apple2.org/",
"name": "Apple2.org",
"description": "Apple 2 data communications"
},
{
"url": "http://www.applefritter.com/",
"name": "Applefritter",
"description": "Buying, selling and trading Apple 2 equipments"
},
{
"url": "http://www.apple-history.com/",
"name": "APPLE-HISTORY.COM",
"description": "Programming on the Apple 2"
},
{
"url": "http://apple2.tffenterprises.com/apple2/",
"name": "Caltech Apple II archive",
"description": "All about Apple II user groups"
},
{
"url": "http://perso.wanadoo.fr/fabrice.montupet/",
"name": "Forever 1970..80..90"
},
{
"url": "http://ground.icaen.uiowa.edu/apple2/",
"name": "Iowa universiry Apple II archive"
},
{
"url": "http://www.apple2clones.com/",
"name": "www.apple2clones.com"
},
{
"url": "ftp://ftp.apple.asimov.net/pub/apple_II/images/",
"name": "FTP Asimov Apple II Archive"
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