Re: WANTED: Apple III info

[phs172m@vaxc.cc.monash.edu.au (Stephen Harker)]

In article <12FEB199505131994@vax2.concordia.ca>, spector@vax2.concordia.ca (Mitchell Spector) writes:
> 	The Apple III+ was a separate machine released two years later,
> back during December 1983. It had a few minor enhancements, but I believe
> it was mainly released to offset the bad feelings people had about the 
> problems with the original III. One last ditch effort to see if they could 
> save the machine (funny how they killed it only four months later, though 
> they now seem comfortable doing this with models of the Macintosh family.. ;-)

I can remember a Softalk article in early 1984 describing the changes.
If I remember sufficiently accurately the main changes they were
(apart from the modified keyboard you mentioned later in your
article).  Improved FCC compliance, I think due to a modified
motherboard and improved back plain.  Overscan giving an `effective'
doubling of the vertical resolution.  Putting the clock chip back on
the motherboard and a later version of SOS.  It _may_ have also had
256K as standard, which is likely given the lower prices for 64K chips
at that time.  The clock chip was removed from the motherboard of the
fixed version of the III, though the location was kept.

There was a comment to the effect that the only changes that were not
available to older III's were the FCC compliance, overscan and new
keyboard.  I think this article also mentioned the Mouse III as being
available, though how many were sold is doubtful.

Another point I remember from an old description from late 1980 is
that the first version of the Apple III had 96K as standard.  That may
have changed by the release, or 128K may have become the base with the
fixed III.

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Stephen Harker			was phs172m@vaxc.cc.monash.edu.au
ex Monash University		now sjh@phadfa.ph.adfa.edu.au
now ADFA (Canberra)		Baloney baffles brains: Eric Frank Russell