13 Facts About Apple IIe

Apple IIe is the third model in the Apple II series of personal computers produced by Apple Computer.

Management believed that "once the Apple IIe III was out, the Apple IIe II would stop selling in six months", cofounder Steve Wozniak later said.

In September 1981 InfoWorld reported—below the PC's announcement—that Apple IIe was secretly developing three new computers "to be ready for release within a year": Lisa, Macintosh, and "Diana".

The Apple IIe was released in January 1983, the successor to the Apple II Plus.

The Apple IIe was the first Apple computer with a custom ASIC chip, which reduced much of the old discrete IC-based circuitry to a single chip.

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One of the most notable improvements of the Apple IIe is the addition of a full ASCII character set and keyboard.

Apple IIe lowered production costs and improved reliability by merging the function of several off-the-shelf ICs into single custom chips, reducing total chip count to 31 .

Later-production Apple IIe models had the RAM soldered to the system board rather than socketed.

Under a free service upgrade program, Apple IIe advised owners of the revision A to have authorized dealers replace it with the revision B motherboard.

In later years Apple labeled newer IIe motherboards with a "-A" suffix , although in terms of functionality they were Revision B motherboards.

In January 1987 came the final revision of the Apple IIe, often referred to as the Platinum IIe, due to the color change of its case to the light-grey color scheme that Apple dubbed "Platinum".

The Apple IIe Card is thought of as an Apple II compatibility solution or emulator rather than as an extension of the Apple II line.

Apple IIe keyboard differed depending on what region of the world it was sold in.