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APPLE II VINTAGE LIBRARY RARE MAGAZINE ARTICLES, MANUALS, SCANS & VIDEOS...
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Apple ][ Plus ad ComputerLand Australia September 1979 Electronics Australia |
Apple ][ Plus ads & authorised dealer list |
Myer Computer Wave ad for Apple ][ Plus March 1982 Australian Personal Computer |
Apple I, II, III & Lisa A History of Personal Computing October 1990 Apple Computer Australia |
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![Disk ][ production line Cork, Ireland with Steve Jobs (1980)](Disk_II_assembly_line_1980_Apple_Cork_Ireland_factory_with_Steve_Jobs.jpg) |
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Disk ][ Drive photos, packing lists & pricing |
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"The ITT colours are very good... purer and richer... On the ITT 2020, the PAL signal is generated on the logic board in identical fashion to the way the NTSC signal is produced in the Apple. That enables the best-quality result to issue without the need for a special card." → see 16 colour bar plot - ITT 2020
Apple /// ad (March 1982 BYTE) [300dpi scan]
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The renaissance man is alive and well — 1983 Apple IIe ad |
Apple //e Engineering a Crowd Pleaser
(Feb 1983 Apple Times) "The shareholders' meeting, held on January 19 (1983) in Cupertino's Flint Center... Chairman of the Board Steve Jobs gave the packed house what they had been waiting for, a look ahead to Apple's future, the public debuts of the Apple //e and Lisa." |
Apple corporate timeline 1976-1988 (Online Archive of California) |
Apple //e ad (February 1983 Softalk) [300dpi scan]
64K Apple //e ads (August 1983 Australian Personal Computer)
Apple //c brochure (U.K. 1984)
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Apple Accessories. Perfect Under Any Tree. Important New Accessories and Special Savings for Mac, Apple IIe & IIc Holiday 1985 Catalog (USA)
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Apple //e ad France (May 1986 Golden magazine)
Apple //c ad Germany - Vφlkner Electronic (March 1987 Happy Computer)
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| Apple Lisa ad — Zofarry Enterprises of Sydney |
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| Five "NewsDisks" of the early Apple User Group of W.A. referenced in the database of my former Apple II 5.25" disk collection (given away entirely in the mid-90's save for a handful of originals) |
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| W.A. Apple Users Group plays host to Ray Sarlin (AUSOM Prowling Reporter) in November 1982 |
Apple ][ Plus brochures (1981 Apple Computer UK)
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May 1983 Apple takes over Australian distribution (January 1985 Australian Personal Computer)
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Three distinct editions of The Applesoft Tutorial by Apple Computer
→ See also Vectronic's scan of Sakata SC-100 ad with Apple II (June 1983 BYTE) HERE
→ More Gumball screenshots: Kaga/Taxan RGB (IIe) | Commodore 1084S PAL composite (IIe) | Commodore 1084S green mode (IIe) | AppleColor RGB (IIGS)
Nu-Tec CRT TV NTSC composite (IIGS) | AppleColor Composite NTSC/50 (3.56MHz) (IIe) | AppleColor Composite mono mode (IIe) | AppleColor Composite NTSC/60 (Taiwanese IIe clone)
AppleColor RGB mono (IIGS) | ViewSonic CRT VGA (Mac LC Apple IIe Card) | Samsung LCD TV PAL Color Encoder Card (Pravetz 8M) | AppleWin NTSC (Windows 7)
NEC MultiSync CRT colour (IIc VGA) | NEC MultiSync CRT green (IIc VGA) | NEC MultiSync CRT shade of green (IIc VGA) | NEC MultiSync CRT amber (IIc VGA)
Samsung LCD TV NTSC (Unitron U-2000) | Samsung LCD TV NTSC (Taiwanese IIe clone) | Samsung LCD TV PAL (IIe) | Samsung LCD TV NTSC (Laser 128EX)
Samsung LCD TV (Laser 128EX mono mode) | Monitor IIc green (Pravetz 8M) | Toshiba LCD TV NTSC (IIe) | Asus LED monitor (Laser 128EX RGB via Microbee CGA to HDMI Converter)
Monitor IIc green (Apple IIc) | Monitor IIc green (Apple IIGS with control panel set to COLOR) | Monitor IIc green (Apple IIGS in MONO standard hi-res mode - dot patterns more like IIe/IIc)
AppleColor Composite NTSC/50 (3.56MHz) (Apple IIc) | Commodore 1084S PAL composite (IIc PAL Modulator/Adapter) | Nu-Tec CRT TV PAL composite (IIc PAL Modulator/Adapter)
AppleColor Composite NTSC/60 (Apple IIGS) | AppleColor Composite NTSC/50 (3.56MHz) (Pravetz 8M) | AppleColor Composite NTSC/50 (3.56MHz) (Apple II Plus - 230V Eurapple model)
Kaga CRT green monitor (PAL IIe with motherboard colour switch enabled) | RCA/Thomson Blackpearl CRT TV (Apple IIc Le Chat Mauve RGB SCART adapter A2M4020F)
RCA/Thomson Blackpearl CRT TV NTSC (Apple IIe) | RCA/Thomson Blackpearl CRT TV NTSC (WOMBAT Apple II+ clone)
Did you know? The Apple Dot Matrix Printer is largely a rebadged C.Itoh Prowriter 8510 (parallel model). The replacement for the Apple DMP the ImageWriter I is more or less a C.Itoh 8510 (serial model) with redesigned case (15" wide carriage version also available). The built-in fonts are the same as those of the Apple DMP, with the addition of a new 13.4 CPI "semicondensed" mode. The ImageWriter II, introduced in 1985, has a stylish new look, adds Near Letter Quality & Draft fonts, MouseText support, colour printing, networking, more advanced paper handling and greater speed, yet retains software compatibility with the earlier models and all take the same black ribbon cartridge. The "Standard" quality (aka Correspondence) ASCII fonts of the ImageWriter II have the same appearance as the regular text output of an Apple DMP or ImageWriter I.
Overview of ImageWriter II built-in fonts & print samples
Draft Standard (Correspondence) NLQ (Near Letter Quality) Pitch
(Characters Per Inch)
9 10 12 13.4 15 17 NB: Applying Bold or Headline (double-width) to Draft at any pitch reverts to Standard quality Proportional-1 160DPI N/A Proportional-2 144DPI N/A
→ Download TrueType recreations of several ImageWriter II fonts (by John H. Isles): Draft | Pica | Proportional Standard | NLQ
ImageWriter II lives on in modern TrueType style!! ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZabcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz1234567890
STAR CURSOR Analog LDR-501 Joystick
for Apple & IBM (by Multicoin Australia)
see also → Impossible Mission Australian edition【"ECP"】with locally manufactured plastic clamshell case
"The new factory will continue to manufacture the Apple IIe, the most widely used personal computer,
as well as the portable Apple IIc and the Apple IIGS, which features extremely advanced graphics and sound capabilities."
Epyx Dragon's Eye by Southern Software (New Zealand)
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Why you should buy an Apple II-something instead of an IBM PC-anything Apple IIe/IIc brochure (1984 Apple Computer)
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Apple II j-plus was the only Asian-localized Apple II ever made. As for subsequent Apple II models sold in the Far East, UK or USA English keyboards were the norm. For instance back in 1983 in Hong Kong, you could have bought Apple IIe in the UK PAL version - see HERE. In Japan, models similar to the American Apple IIc & IIe were available in stores - see HERE & HERE. The Japanese Apple IIc A2S4000J {→ photos HERE} sported an American QWERTY keyboard, but toggle switches & status lights above the keyboard were labelled with symbols rather than text (as per European & Canadian IIc). Supplied power module was 100V 50/60Hz or 120V/60Hz. An Apple II Kanji Word Processor was developed internally at Apple but never saw commercial use - see HERE. An 11" colour monitor with Apple logo - Toray TM-113V(A) - was marketed for j-plus - please refer HERE & HERE.
Did you know? Laser 128EX (Apple IIe/IIc compatible computer) supports both analogue and digital RGB which produce a sharper image than is possible with regular composite video. The RGB implementation is based around the 16 colour CGA palette but only digital RGB gives you the full set (8 colours with 2 levels of intensity). Laser's analogue RGB serves up a simplified subset of only 8 colours (lo-res/DHR colours #0-7 and #8-15 are duplicate sets). Standard hi-res colours look the same in either mode and correspond quite well to the Apple standard. Lo-res colour #7 (also present in double hi-res) which is nominally light blue, shows the most striking difference, being rendered grey in digital RGB and white with analogue.
My close-up encounter with a wombat at Hartz Mountains National Park in Tasmania on 25 August 2014
"In 1983, Apple, worried about the increasing number of illegal clones on the market declared war on the manufacturers. Their first victim was Computer Edge, the Australian distributor of a Taiwanese clone, the Wombat... At the end of 1983 the Australian Federal Court found in favour of Computer Edge... This led to an uproar which resulted in the Australian copyright law being amended so that it applied to software. In 1984 the full bench of the Federal Court reversed the original decision by a majority of 2-1. However, the final appeal, decided in 1986, supported the original judgment by a 3-2 majority." The Age (May 3, 1988)
The ramification of this ruling is that Apple II clones (using copied Apple ROMs) and pirated software in general, were legal in Australia - right up until the law was changed. Apple did succeed in shutting down most of the Apple II cloning operations in the Far East. Those companies regrouped, switched to IBM cloning with a vengeance, and it was the millions of cheap PC clones flooding out of Taiwan in particular - many with legal BIOS (e.g. Phoenix, AMI) and licensed copies of MS-DOS or Windows - which almost drove Apple to the wall by the mid-1990's.
Apple loses Wombat lawsuit
& Apple III Plus released (Jan 1984 InfoWorld)
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Lothlorien Software ad (March 1984 Your Computer) → further info on Lothlorien products HERE |
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| Dow Jones News & Quotes Reporter for Apple II ad (Nov 1980 Santa Cruz Sentinel) | Microsoft Multiplan, Fortran-80, Applesoft Compiler, SoftCard, RAMCard for Apple II |
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Apple LaserWriter with the Apple IIGS (Nov/Dec 1990 GS+ Magazine) → "LaserWriting" fonts & templates from the GS+ disk are HERE |
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Your Apple II and the LaserWriter (July 1986 A+ magazine) |
Taxan RGB Vision-I monitor (120V model)
& Taxan 64K RGB 80 Column Card (IIe)
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1988 revision of Auto Ice Printer Card featuring Epson ImageWriter emulation |
[the Auto Ice Printer Card was also produced under license by Cardco of the USA - see HERE & HERE & HERE]
see also → AppleWorks TimeOut SuperFonts print sample on Epson LQ-500 (hi-res scan)
Apple IIc International Packing List (Australia) - Z030-0846-A - high-resolution scan
Apple IIc Export Control Regulations (multi-lingual) - 030-1165 - high-resolution scan
Apple Monitor IIc Packing List (1984) - 030-0942-A - high-resolution scan {same as USA version}
Apple Monitor IIc Evaluation Report (1984) - 030-0952-A - high-resolution scan
Apple Computer 90 Day Limited Warranty (1983) - 030-0183-E REV 1183 - high-resolution scan
AppleMouse IIc Packing List (1984) - 030-0962-B - high-resolution scan
Apple Scribe Printer — A9M0306 (115V) & A9M0306Z (220/240V) models
Did you know? Apple Scribe can print directly on thermal roll paper with no ribbon watch demonstration HERE
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Scan of
complete
Apple IIc brochure
(A2F4001)
available from The
Trailing Edge |
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[see HERE for John Sculley with Apple IIGS on front cover of "Family Computing" (Oct 1986) & HERE for "COMPUTE!" (Nov 1986) cover story "A Hands-On Look At The New Apple IIGS Computer"]
Win an APPLE IIGS! January 1987 Your Computer (Australia)
"With an unprecedented $500,000 television campaign, Questor Entertainment Products has arrived. Launched by Imagineering, the new company plans to create a high profile for its range of entertainment software. With exclusive access to products from some of the world's top software houses like Activision, Micro Illusions, Mindscape and MicroProse, Questor seems set to make quite a splash. Although taking over the entire range of Imagineering games, which is comprehensive, national sales manager Alan Bowman promises to seek out and deliver "all the hottest new titles". Sydney Morning Herald (October 19, 1987)
see also → Apple Computer GmbH colour brochure - Preisliste Apple IIc, IIe, Macintosh, Lisa (November 1984) & Apple-Preisliste Apple IIe, IIc, Mac (November 1985) - Hardware, Software, Peripherie, Zubehφr
American models of the Apple IIe & IIc as assembled in USA (Dallas, Fremont) & Singapore
"The Journey Never Ends" poster (ca. 1990)
Apple IIe | Apple IIGS with Hard Disk 80SC | Mac LC
Vulcan by Applied Engineering & InnerDrive by Applied Ingenuity
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AppleColor RGB Monitor (A2M6014Z - 220V model)
NB: This European model (220V) works best with GS
set for 60Hz refresh - see
HERE
Same applies to
240V model though 50Hz is mandatory with PAL version Apple II
Video Overlay Card - see
HERE
VOC Populi
from Brutal Deluxe displays the state and
capabilities of a Video Overlay Card (and distinguishes PAL vs NTSC
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Apple IIGS hidden menu to select 60 or 50Hz video (RGB & composite)
Every Apple IIGS - regardless of where it was sold - outputs NTSC video via the RCA composite jack (fixed 3.58MHz colour burst with adjustable 60/50Hz vertical frequency). A little known PAL conversion kit was available in Australia. |
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AppleColor RGB Monitor (A2M6014X - 240V model) Left: Made in Japan - November 1986 Right: Made in Singapore - February 1991 |
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1988 Apple II Winter Promotion (Australia) ][+ trade up to Platinum IIe & discount pricing on IIe & 256K IIGS Starter System |
System 4.0 as bundled with Apple IIGS (A2S6010) from late 1988 (NB: Some A2S6010 models predate System 4.0 and even - in their factory-original state - ROM 01 - e.g. see HERE)
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Apple CD-ROM Explorer for AppleCD SC (1988) |
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Apple IIGS brochure with Video Overlay Card & AppleCD SC (April 1989) |
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→ see HERE for "Apple IIGS Plus - The Future" (1988 prototype with 7.8MHz clock speed & four new super hi-res graphic modes...) article from National US GS Users Group BBS republished in "Apple-Bug" (July 1988)
The Second Sight VGA Display Interface adds SVGA capabilities to any Apple IIe or IIGS with resolutions up to 1024x768. Cogito from Brutal Deluxe Software (IIGS port of award-winning French game) supports this card with 640x400 graphics in 256 colours.
"The Apple IIGS is the reincarnation of the Apple II spirit... We should not try to artificially constrain this product by positioning it as an educational computer or a home computer... It could be an interesting small-business type of machine. My idea of positioning tends to be simplistic: It's the high-end-technology Apple II... We are already working on the successor to this machine..." Jean-Louis Gassée (Apple Vice-President for Product Development) inCider (October 1986)
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[see HERE for photo of Digicard 4MB Apple IIGS Memory Expansion Board]
→ See also PHOTO: Apple II Europlus with Maclagan Wright & Associates PAL Encoder Card - courtesy S. Johnson
→ See also 240V ColorMonitor IIc A2M4043X & 240V AppleColor Composite Monitor //c matching model A2M6020X
PHOTO: Oscilloscope waveform - colour burst of European Apple IIc - courtesy M. Orlandi
→ See also PHOTOS: Apple IIe PAL Colour Card (A2A005) for the Platinum Apple IIe 'International NTSC'
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AutoDuel, Impossible MIssion, Summer Games II original boxes with Myer price stickers
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"Superior Computer Games from Strategic Studies Group" (August 1987 Applecations)
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[HERE is a 1985 television interview with Ian Trout and Roger Keating - founders of Strategic Studies Group. See also Strategic Simulations Inc. Summer 1987 Catalog with games by Roger Keating et al.]
[NB: The original IIGS has 256K on-board RAM, however a non-expandable 256K RAM card (A2A6008 / A661-0256) came standard with the Australian Apple IIGS from the very beginning, for a total of 512K - see HERE, HERE & HERE. A discounted 256K "Starter System" (lacking RAM card) was made available during the Australian 1988 Apple II Winter Promotion. From March 1988, Apple began including free, with every system sold in the USA, the Apple IIGS Memory Expansion Card (A2B6002) with 256K fitted (user-expandable to 1MB), ahead of the arrival of System 4.0 (GS/OS) which requires minimum 512K - see HERE & also pg 24 of The Apple IIGS Buyer's Guide (Winter 1990). The revised ROM 3 Apple IIGS, launched late 1989, has 1.128MB RAM incorporated on the motherboard.]
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"People buy Apple II computers for a number of reasons" Excerpts from Apple IIe, IIc, IIGS brochure (January 1987 - USA)
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"Hire an experienced business partner" from 12 page British Apple IIGS brochure |
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Apple II In/Modem
from
NetComm / Apple Computer Australia & Videotex II software |
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An earlier version of the NetComm Apple II modem (June/July 1984 Electronics Australia & AAR) |
Chip Checker and Sprite Graphics Card from Australian Video Presentations (Sep 1984 Electronics Australia) |
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Apple Modem 1200 (external) made by NetComm (1987 APC Communications Special) Model # A9M0301-Z (supporting CCITT V21, V23 mode 2) → photos HERE |
Apple Personal Modem (A9M0334 - USA model) Australian models of the Apple Personal Modem & Apple Personal Modem Plus were made by NetComm - see HERE & HERE Apple Data Modem 2400 (G5432) for the North American market was "assembled in Australia" by NetComm |
The NetComm Program for Apple IIGS
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Apple Personal Modem Plus (A9U0004 - Australian model) (supporting CCITT V21, V22, V23 & Bell 103, 212) Stackable with Apple 3.5 and UniDisk 3.5 drives |
Maestro Australia
Apple II modem card
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HI TECH C Compiler for Apple IIGS (October 1987 Electronics Australia) |
Viaterm Videotex software for Apple II (1987 APC Communications Special & The Apple IIgs Software Directory) |
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Videx AppleWorks Modify Plus on the Pravetz 8M |
Plus-Works - AppleWorks enhancer & clone compatibility e.g. Dick Smith CAT & Laser 3000 (March 1986 AUSOM News) |
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| Information on Mouse Desk and Apple IIGS System Software releases |
Quick File // for Apple //e original box scans
"In 1981, I wrote, and Apple published, Quick File for the Apple II and ///, a predecessor of the AppleWorks data base..." Rupert Lissner (mastermind behind AppleWorks & /// EZ Pieces) Apple-Bug (February 1990)
AppleWorks 5.0 original box (1994 Quality Computers)
[The 800K drive was newly purchased by me in early 1990 and is completely unmodified. It sports Sony MP-F17W-5PF 1.44MB mechanism but HD support is disabled (AE did offer an upgrade to activate HD - for a fee). Even in this 800K configuration the drive detects the HD notch on 1.44MB disks and refuses to work with them unless the notch is covered up making them appear as 800K. The Apple 3.5 Drive doesn't care about this notch and treats all HD disks as 800K. In practice, I've found the AE drive to be somewhat more robust than the Apple 3.5 for reading marginal disks. OTOH, the AE is noisier in operation. The AE handles copy-protected IIGS disks just fine and supports 4:1 and 2:1 interleaving. Its dual-colour LED flashes green when reading and red when writing.]
Friends or Foes? Apple IIGS vs Mac LC
(June 1991 inCider/A+)
The Jet (1985 SubLOGIC) demo sequence on PC Transporter (Apple IIGS)
Apple sells 4000 Apple IIgs computers with PC Transporter cards to US Department of Defense
Mind Prober, Mind Prober Jr & Human Edge Software ad
GS+ Magazine review of Rastan
Steve Wozniak on inventing the Disk ][ Drive
August 24, 2016 Perth
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][ The Rescue" reading real 1.4MB 3.5" floppy disks via
PowerBook internal SuperDrive
[~6 minutes]
Apple Computer advertisement
Joystick ][, Hand Controllers ][, Cursor ///, Numeric Keypad
(September 1982 Creative Computing) [400dpi scan]
Applefest Anaheim/Boston/San Francisco
(February 1983 Softalk) [300dpi scan]
"The new Atari 1040ST, the one-megabyte-memory improved version of the 520ST, is to be launched at the PC 86 show in Melbourne. The 1040ST is aimed primarily at business users, but, like its small brother the 520ST, it comes equipped with the industry-standard musical interface, MIDI (which stands, as we all know, for Musical Instrument Digital Interface). This means it can be connected to all industry standard synthesisers. This is double handy, as the Australian distributor of the Atari machines, Mobex, is also the distributor for the Casio range of musical synthesisers and electronic keyboards. It is also interesting to note the Atari has a standard parallel interface which allows it to use the Casio portable electronic typewriter as a printer...
The long-awaited new Apple II will use the Western Design WD65C816. This is a 16-bit chip designed to be compatible with the eight-bit 6502 processor used in the Apple II, Commodore 64 and other home micros. Unfortunately, the new Apple package with disc drive and monitor will be less powerful than an Atari 1040STF, but more expensive, and have far less 16-bit software available. The new Super II will be very important in the United States where the Apple II has been a best-seller since 1977.
Meanwhile, in Australia, the home-micro market hots up with some quite amazing marketing plans due to be revealed towards the latter part of this year. At the same time, Apple will release new products which it is coyly hiding under such code names as Dodger and Milwaukee. These include the 16-bit Apple, mentioned earlier, a Macintosh with a larger screen and a laser printer operating at 400 dots an inch. There will almost certainly not now be a colour Macintosh until earlier next year. It already exists, and has been demonstrated to the Apple staff in the company's California headquarters. The reason for it not being launched is that Apple want to keep the clear market differentiation between the Macintosh and the Amiga and Atari." Sydney Morning Herald (June 2, 1986)
Support for Epson scalable fonts in Windows XP
"Apple Computer's Apple II range has dominated educational computing in Australia for 17 years... Like DOS machines, the Apple II runs on a text-based operating system, in this case called ProDOS... Two models are still being marketed to schools, the colour IIe at A$1195 and the GS at A$1795. Both will probably be phased out over the next year or so." The Age (January 25, 1993) [NB: Though already discontinued, Apple IIGS remained available in Australia until ca. 1994. Of course it could also run GS/OS - a Mac-like operating system - in addition to 8-bit OS e.g. ProDOS, DOS 3.3, Pascal, GEOS as well as - with suitable co-processor card - CP/M and MS-DOS]
see also → Recommended computers for schools in each Australian State and Territory in 1986
Apple II Video Overlay Card
1989 dealer poster
Macintosh PowerPC, PowerBook 540c, Duo
& Wolfenstein 3D in "The Net" (1995)
Apple Newton in "Under Siege 2" (1995)
with Steve Jobs look-alike Steven Seagal
"Land of the Giants: Titans of Tech - Apple: Think Different" (2022)
Macrocosm - Exploring the Macintosh Universe March 1994 - Feb 1995 [15MB StuffIt archive Disk Copy 4.2 images] | March 1994 - Feb 1995 [14MB ZIP archive Disk Copy 4.2 images] | Scan of original disks [14MB PDF file]
Mac LC Apple IIe Card Startup Software v2.2 (1992) IIe Startup Disk (1.4MB) [Disk Copy 4.2 image] | IIe Installer Disk (1.4MB) [Disk Copy 4.2 image] | IIe Startup & Installer Disks [StuffIt archive Disk Copy 4.2 images]
Gravis Mac MouseStick II v3.3.2 Installer (1996) 1.4MB disk [Disk Copy 4.2 image] | 1.4MB disk [StuffIt archive Disk Copy 4.2 image] | Scan of original disk & Quick Start manual [20MB PDF file]
Macintosh Australian Postcodes (1988-90) 800K disk [Disk Copy 4.2 image] | 800K disk [StuffIt archive Disk Copy 4.2 image] | Scan of original disk
Connectix PowerBook Utilities 2.0 (1993) 800K disk [Disk Copy 4.2 image] | 800K disk [StuffIt archive Disk Copy 4.2 image] | Scan of original disk
Connectix Speed Doubler 1.3.3 (1998) 800K disk [Disk Copy 4.2 image] | 800K disk [StuffIt archive Disk Copy 4.2 image] | Scan of original disk | Scan of complete manual
MacTest Pro (PowerBook Vol 1) (1993) 1.4MB disk [Disk Copy 4.2 image] | 1.4MB disk [StuffIt archive Disk Copy 4.2 image]
Take a fresh look at the Apple Family Tree (1994) 800K disk [Disk Copy 4.2 image] | 800K disk [StuffIt archive Disk Copy 4.2 image] | Scan of original disk
CD CLASSIC with 500MB+ shareware for Mac System 7.1 and below (1996 New York MacUsers' Group) HFS CD-ROM [266MB ZIP archive ISO image] | Scan of CD jewel case | Contents of root folder
AppleAssist Volume 6 Apple Software Updates CD & database of 12,000+ Macintosh Products (1998) HFS CD-ROM [381MB ZIP archive ISO image] | Scan of original CD label | Contents of root folder
Deja ][ v1.2 AppleWorks 5.1 emulator for Mac System 7 (1999) Self-Extracting Archive (2MB) [SEA in MacBinary wrapper] → see screenshots HERE
Miles Computing Mac Attack (1984) Scan of original box & manual [16MB PDF file] | Demo video on Macintosh Plus [this was only the 2nd game to hit the Mac market]
Capstone Trump Castle II (1992) Color Version (800K) [Disk Copy 4.2 image] | Color Version (800K) [StuffIt archive Disk Copy 4.2 image]
Black & White Version (800K) [Disk Copy 4.2 image] | Black & White Version (800K) [StuffIt archive Disk Copy 4.2 image] | Scan of original box, disks & manual [36MB PDF file]
MacPlay/Interplay Out Of This World (1992) 1.4MB disk [Disk Copy 4.2 image] | 1.4MB disk [StuffIt archive Disk Copy 4.2 image] | Scan of original box, disk & manual [28MB PDF file]
FUSION-PC 1.2 Macintosh emulator (full version) for MS-DOS (1998 Microcode Solutions) ZIP archive [emulates 68040 - includes Quadra ROM - runs up to MacOS 8.1]
see also → A Day in the Life of Bill Budge (K-POWER June 1984)
The original Apple II User's Guide by Lon Poole
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A fitting choice! Interesting fact: In the 1980's, the Parmelia Hilton's accounting system was run entirely on Apple II equipment and the software was custom designed for them by Samurai Software's lead programmer (then aged just 16).
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| Parmelia Hilton as it looked in the early 80's |
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| King Tut exhibition in Perth (October 2016) |
^ 2024-12-04 (last revised)
X-REF (Cross-Reference) to Apple II Programming Books (144 pages - PDF original scan)
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A compilation of the glossaries and indexes from the books and references listed below. It is intended to be a "look here first" book for helping you find the definition to terms used in any of these sources of technical information. In addition, the compiled index will help you find what you are looking for across the entire suite. |
The books covered:
Apple IIc Technical Reference
Apple IIe Technical Reference
Apple IIGS Firmware Reference
ProDOS 16 Technical Reference
Programmer's Introduction to the Apple IIGS
Technical Introduction to the Apple IIGS
Apple IIGS Toolbox Reference (treated as a whole)
Technical notes:
Apple IIe Tech Notes
Apple IIc Tech Notes
Apple IIGS Tech Notes
Apple II Miscellaneous Tech Notes
AppleTalk Tech Notes
GS/OS Tech Notes
ImageWriter Tech Notes
Memory Expansion Card
Mouse Tech Notes
ProDOS 8 Tech Notes
Pascal Tech Notes
SmartPort Tech Notes
UniDisk 3.5 Tech Notes
^ 2015-11-11 (last revised 2020-05-13)
AppleSwap disks (Apple Computer Australia Pty Ltd)
How Do I Get To Woolloomooloo? (1987 JDEisenberg)
"Enter the GS: A dramatic breakthrough for the Apple II range" - Apple IIGS cover story, Apple User magazine (UK) (October 1986)
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Apple IIGS launch advertisement United Kingdom - Apple User magazine (UK) (April 1987) |
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"Now the world's favourite personal computer is one of the world's most powerful. Introducing the Apple IIGS." |
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Apple IIGS brochure United Kingdom (12 pages) |
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The complete Australian edition of this brochure - 20 PAGE HQ scan - now available @ archive.org (with thanks to 'Jongleur') |
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Canadian English version of this brochure available HERE (courtesy Mitchell Spector) & Italian two-page advertisement is HERE |
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See also Apple IIGS French fold-out brochure (August 1986) similar to above ☞ 1 | 2 (courtesy 'michael_trust' on eBay FR) |
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French press release «Son et lumiθre avec l'Apple IIGS» (April 1987)
Installationshandbuch Apple IIGS & Apple IIGS Technische Dokumentation (official German manuals)
"Installationshandbuch Apple IIGS" (1986 Apple Computer GmbH) - complete high-resolution
scan
Apple IIGS Pandasoft ad (Der Spiegel, Nr.38/1987)
Major vendor of Apple II in Germany hardware, software, books & magazines
Also see → Pandasoft Apple II II+ IIe IIc Katalog (Spring 1986) @ archive.org
See also
hi-res scans
Apple
Live - Sonderheft zum neuen Apple IIGS
(September 1986 Apple Computer GmbH)
- 27-page German brochure
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Steve Wozniak reminisces in Apple User magazine (UK) (February 1987) |
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Irish manufactured Apple IIGS original box base of CPU with serial # UK English Apple IIGS keyboard [photos courtesy of eBay UK]
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Italian version "Apple IIGS - Il piω potente Apple II" (September 1986) is HERE |
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12" Apple Monochrome Monitor (composite) for Apple IIGS or IIc (white phosphor) |
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A2M6016X (240V southern hemisphere) & A2M6016Z (220V northern hemisphere) models |
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high-resolution photos Apple Monochrome Monitor A2M6016X original box [18 MB]
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Italian Apple IIc |
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A2S4000T model (220/240V PAL) |
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[photos courtesy eBay UK] |
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Apple IIGS garners prestigious 19th SMAU Industrial Design Award in Milan |
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Italian Apple IIGS (ROM 01) |
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A2S6000W model (220/240V) |
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[photos courtesy eBay Italy] |
Apple IIGS wins IEEE Good Design Award (May 1987)
Bose RoomMate speakers for Apple IIGS
Apple IIGS & AppleWorks GS Christmas ad (1988)
ComputerLand San Francisco Bay Area
Full page ad from Californian TV Guide
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Apple IIGS launch advertisement Australia (1987) - published in magazines & as a fold-out brochure from Apple dealers (the brochure had at least one extra page listing the specs) |
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[scans courtesy of The Australian Apple Review © Gareth Powell / A.P.P.L.E.] |
Did you know?! "The Apple IIgs Software Directory" (84 pages, by Peter J. Lynden) was published in 1987 by Apple Computer Australia view library citation
Complete scan now available @ archive.org (courtesy of 'Jongleur')
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The Parthenon two-page Apple IIGS advertisement |
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Sports Illustrated (USA) October 26, 1987 |
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The most powerful Apple II in history. And every other subject. |
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Brochures 1988 showing Woz edition Apple IIGS (6 pages)† Ω & 1991 with ROM 3 IIGS (4 pages)†
| †I initially guessed this was from Canada, as it refers to the optional Apple IIGS Memory Expansion Card and uses international English spellings. In Australia, the original IIGS came standard with a locally manufactured 256K memory card for a base configuration of 512K RAM. Woz Limited Editions - first 50,000 shipping IIGS units emblazoned with Wozniak's autograph - were to be found in USA, Canada and Australia, but I'm uncertain about the UK†, which sourced their IIGS's not from Singapore but Apple's factory in Cork, Ireland. These Irish units do contain actual Irish components (e.g. 8 ohm internal loudspeaker) but the motherboards were largely (or exclusively?) supplied from Singapore. Some later European IIGS's (e.g. French ROM 3) were assembled in their entirety in Singapore. Singaporean ROM 01 IIGS for Europe does exist (A2S6000ZA) but is less common. A2S6000ZA was primarily an Asian model and sold in places like Singapore and Hong Kong ("ZA" remains the iPhone model code for SG/HK to this day). Apple IIGS production had officially ceased at Cork, Ireland by February 1992 - see Apple UK dealer memo. But they were still being churned out in Singapore and System 6 was even bundled for good measure - see American ROM 3 IIGS "as new" boxed (1992). The Apple IIGS was formally discontinued worldwide end-1992. |
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UPDATE
I managed to source the original
brochure It originates from Australia and is dated May 1988. The cover depicts a Woz Limited Edition, but it's unlikely these commemorative units were still available in 1988. The single production run of Woz editions ceased sometime in early 1987. |
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220-240V Apple IIGS assembled in Cork,
Ireland (5th week of 1987)
Serial No. C7050CHA2S6000
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Early French Apple IIGS assembled in Cork, Ireland (49th week of 1986) as new in original box! In France, Apple IIGS at launch came standard with 512K RAM (256K motherboard plus Apple IIGS Memory Expansion Card with 256K fitted, user-expandable to 1MB) → see French press release Apple IIGS with Serial No. C64906YA2F6000 (A2S6000W model family) Model info is engraved in plastic on the underside of the case (with added sticker for serial number) Comparatively, Apple IIGS units originating from Singapore are not embossed model ID resides on a large printed adhesive label |
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Apple IIGS ROM 3 motherboard |
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(manufactured 39th week of 1989) |
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Model/Order Numbers for ROM 3 Apple IIGS A0012X/A (Australia), A0012LL/A (USA), A0012C/A (Canada), A0012B/A (UK), A0012F/A (France) etc. |
For an overview of the ROM 3 see "What's Inside The "New" IIGS" in The Apple IIGS Buyer's Guide (Winter 1990)
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Apple IIe to IIGS Upgrade (A2S6001)
For Apple IIGS Upgrade pricing & options please see my scan → Apple Education & Government Confidential Price List (USA) - March 1987
In Australia, the upgrade cost A$1195 → see HERE
"Introducing the Apple IIGS" 20 page brochure (USA) - excerpts
Scan of complete brochure available from Vectronic's Collections
"Guess what" 6 page Apple IIGS brochure (1986 USA)
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"Apple Pays Half" double-sided Apple IIGS advertising postcard (1987 USA)
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"System 6: The Future is Here" - The Apple II Guide (1992)
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Who owns this car?!
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Close-ups of my Apple IIGS Woz Limited Edition (Australia)
Model # A2S6000X (A2S6000W family)
This unit was made in Singapore during the 50th week of 1986. ROM 0 as shipped, but later upgraded by Apple for free to ROM 01. Apple IIGS motherboards were the same the world over - just some defaults might be configured differently keyboard/display language, 50 or 60Hz refresh for RGB & composite video (NTSC colour burst remains fixed at 3.58MHz and there is no provision for PAL colour via composite). (The retrofit Apple IIGS Upgrade motherboard for Apple //e will have extra connectors soldered on to accommodate a //e keyboard and external numeric keypad along with the proper connector for a //e power supply.) By the way, see HERE for the rarely-encountered startup screen of a factory-original ROM 0 Apple IIGS.
[see HERE for photo of an "Assembled in Australia" Apple IIGS 1MB Memory Expansion Card and HERE for "Apple Computer Australia - Genuine Service Part" anti-static bag]
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Genuine Apple II Dealer Service disks for Australia
Apple II Super Serial Card assembled in Australia?
Apple 5.25 Controller assembled & packaged in Australia
Gift of Christmas — The new Apple IIGS from Computer Choice (November 1986 Sunday Times)
I gave away the keyboard that was original to my Australian Woz edition around 1996 (the Australian IIGS keyboard is just the standard American one). So when I started using an Apple IIGS again in late 2015, I found this replacement French Canadian keyboard with a standard QWERTY layout. It too, may have come from a Woz edition GS, judging by the low serial number. All the keys work fine - the Return key was a bit stiff at first but now fixed with the aid of CRC 5.56 lubricant spray:-
For comparison, HERE are photos of an AZERTY European French Apple IIGS keyboard (part # F658-4081)
And see HERE for photos of a Canadian Woz Limited Edition Apple IIGS (model # A2S6000C) & HERE for the USA version (model # A2S6000)
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Apple IIc & IIe — Canadian flavours |
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A2S4000C (120V) & A2S2064C (120V) models |
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And HERE are photos of Enhanced Apple IIe with Western Spanish keyboard (model A2S2064E - 115V NTSC - circa 1985)
Some photos from my travels to a wintry Québec (February 2012)
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