Years later, in 1989, you could still purchase an Apple III for $395.00įrom Sun Remarketing. The Apple III Plus was on the market for a total of 4 months! On April 24, 1984, the entire Apple III line was retired with only 65,000 units sold in total. Nevertheless, the Apple III was so distrusted that even though it was now a fine and functional system, Monitor is also in a lighter shade to match the keyboard. On the Plus, the keyboard is now a lighter shade than on the original Apple III, and the matching Peripheral ports which were now standard DB-25 connectors, and an improved operating system, SOS 1.3. There were still problems, mostly the Apple III's bad reputation, so once again, in December 1983,Īpple introduced the redesigned Apple III Plus, for US$3000. Seen here sitting between the Apple III and the Monitor III. Apple also introduced the ProFile 5Meg external hard drive, In addition, the real-time clock did not work, and the Apple II emulation wasn't perfect and didn't always work correctly.Īccording to Steve Wozniak, the early Apple III had '100 percent hardware failures'.Īfter replacing 14,000 bad Apple IIIs, a newly revised system, with twice as much memory, 256K RAM, One common fix was to pick up the console andĭrop it onto the desk, which would apparently reseat the daughterboard memory board which had cheap standoff connectors prone to oxidation. One result was that the motherboard got hot, which would cause system malfunctions. Steve Jobs, who supervised the project, gave ridiculous demands to the development team including dimensions that were too small to fit all the components,Īnd no cooling fan, because fans were 'too noisy and inelegant'. The Apple III chassis is a single, heavy piece of aluminum, with the power supply totally enclosed in the left section, with no ventilation what-so-ever. The Apple III has 4 internal expansion slots that are compatible with Apple II cards, and also has Apple II Plus emulation built-in. It is also the first Apple computer to have aīuilt-in floppy drive, a Shugart 143k 5.25-inch floppy drive.

The Apple II and has twice as much memory - 128k of RAM. In the fall of 1980, Apple ships the first Apple III units in limited quantity. The Apple III was announced on May 19, 1980, during the National Computer Conference in Was first released for the Apple II ($595 in 1979) with an interface card, but the Apple III has Silentype Released by Apple, although it is actually a rebadged Trendcom Model 200 printer.

Seen here is the Apple III with the Silentype thermal printer. They sold hundreds of thousands of them, and it was the primary money maker for the company.īut Apple didn't expect the Apple II to continue to be so successsful, so they set out to design an evenīetter system, the Apple III, specifically for the business environment. Since 1977, Apple had been making millions of dollars on their Apple II line of computers.

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