Apple III
The Apple III was designed to be a business machine. It was partly compatible with the Apple II (thanks to a few options in the operating system). It used a powerful memory management system and worked under SOS (Sophisticated Operating System) which was an independent, operating system. This OS was the "ancestor" of ProDOS (the "professional" Apple operating system) and some parts of this system were used later in the Lisa and Macintosh OSs.
Despite its unique features, the Apple III had a lot of technical problems, namely, the horrible case design. It caused the internal temperature to get so hot that the motherboard would warp and some of the socketed chips would become unseated. To remedy this, Apple told people to literally pick up the computer several centimeters off the desk and drop it! It was a miserable flop in the marketplace. The Apple III was followed in december 1993 by the Apple III plus which had an Apple IIe style keyboard and a new video interface. Four months later, it was discontinued.
See Also[edit | edit source]
- Apple IIe
- Apple MACINTOSH II - What Steve Jobs wanted the Apple III to be like.