Re: Apple 2E What Is It?

[spec@vax2.concordia.ca (Mitchell Spector)]

In article skaratso@oucsace.cs.ohiou.edu (Stavros Robert Karatsoridis) writes...
>
>This was found posted in the binaries.
>: Let me see...
>: Around 1984 the Apple ][e came out.
>: Before that were the Apple ][+
>: the Apple III  (believe it or not 3)
>: the Apple ][
>: and the Apple I.
> 
>: The Apple ][c came out about the same time as the Lisa which became
>: the Macintosh.  (Lisa did - not c)
> 
>: And about 1991 I think the Apple ][gs came out.
>: This is about the time I gave up on Apple and got a PC.
>: Hope this helps.
>: I just stopped by this newsgroup - I won't be back.
>: -D
> 
>Let's get it straight. The above information is not accurate.
>
>The Apple ][ and ][+ were released in ????
>The Apple //e came out in late 1982
>The Apple III came out in 1983, followed by the III+
>The Lisa came out in 1983 ????
>The Apple //c came out in 1984, same year as the Macintosh
>The Apple IIgs was introduced in 1986.
>The Apple IIc+ was introduced in ????

    Unfortunately, while your time-line information is closer, it's still
no more accurate. Below are the _correct_ release dates and order in which
Apple released systems, which I'm writing from memory incidentally (expect
for the months of certain Mac models :)

CPU Model           Month              Year
---------           -----              ----
Apple I             July               1976
Apple II            April              1977 *
Apple II Plus       June               1979 *
Apple III           May                1980
Apple Lisa          January            1983
Apple IIe           January            1983 *
Apple III Plus      December           1983
Macintosh 128       January            1984
Lisa 2              January            1984 
Apple IIc           April              1984 *
Macintosh 512       September          1984
Macintosh XL        January            1985
Macintosh Plus      January            1986 
Apple IIgs          September          1986 *
Macintosh 512e      April              1986     
Macintosh SE        March              1987
Macintosh II        March              1987
Apple IIc Plus      September          1988 *

* = A new Apple II model


Mitchell Spector
spec@vax2.concordia.ca