> > Apple III 6502 128K SOS MICRO 83
>
> The Apple III is definitely earlier than 1983. I have a booklet entitled
> "Apple In Depth" from 1981 and it has the Apple III in it. Also, I found
> a review of the III in the December, 1980 issue of Popular Science
> (p.113).
Strictly from my memory but, I'm _positive_ the A/// was released in
fall of 1980. It actually beat the IBM PC to market, but had 100%
hardware malfunction in the first run, and didn't have the bugs fixed
until after the PC was out. (No longer strictly from memory. I just
checked it out, It _Was_ Sept. 1980, and the ][+ was June 1979.)
Apple has a great 'History' at:
http://product.info.apple.com/pr/background/pr.background.timeline.html
(Of course, it doesn't really mention any of the major failures.)
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