Re: help what in the hell is a Apple III

[antares <antares@email.com>]

The Apple III was Apple's "Business" computer,  intended to compete with the IBM PC. It was large and extremely heavy, not to mention expensive. It went over like a lead balloon (and weighed as much!). It came in two flavours, the
original Apple III and the later Apple III+. I still have a III+ just for the sake of history.

It did introduce some important things which became standards in the Apple II world, and indeed in the computing world generally. First, it introduced the concept of software "drivers" for peripherals: with the right driver you could
use practically any kind of device. Second, the SOS operating system was what became ProDOS. Finally, the program "Three Easy Pieces" later became the original "AppleWorks", IMHO the finest single computer program ever written for any
computer. Imagine a good word processor with spell check, a powerful spreadsheet and a functional flat-file database all on one 800K disk, with room left over for document files! No fancy fonts or page layout, but in combination with
Publish It! 4.0, almost anything was possible. Too, it introduced the Profile hard drive system. I have a 5MB Profile which cost nearly $4000 when new in 1981. Amazing how things change over time.


regards.
antares at email.com

ryanrr wrote:

> i would like to know what the hell a Apple III i thought i knew everything on apple but that's the one thing i am in the dark about please help a .JPEG would be nice of one Email me with a picture and specs PLEASE ryanrr@prolog.net