Apple III, the Glossary
The Apple III (styled as apple /// or Apple |.[1]
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87 relations: APF Imagination Machine, Apple GS/OS, Apple II, Apple II Plus, Apple IIc, Apple IIe, Apple III, Apple Inc., Apple Lisa, Apple ProFile, Apple SOS, Apple Writer, Applesoft BASIC, Backward compatibility, Bank switching, Bitwise operation, Boolean data type, Byte, Byte (magazine), Central processing unit, Chip creep, Classic Mac OS, Codebase, Computer-aided design, Computer-aided manufacturing, CP/M, Device driver, Digital-to-analog converter, Directory (computing), Disk controller, Disk II, Drawing board, Dvorak keyboard layout, Electromagnetic interference, Emulator, Federal Communications Commission, File Allocation Table, File system, Floating-point arithmetic, Floppy disk, Fortran, Function (computer programming), Hard disk drive, Heat sink, Hertz, Hexadecimal, Hierarchical file system, IBM Personal Computer, IMac, InfoWorld, ... Expand index (37 more) »
- 8-bit computers
- Apple II family
- Computer-related introductions in 1980
- Products and services discontinued in 1984
APF Imagination Machine
The APF Imagination Machine is a combination home video game console and home computer system released by APF Electronics Inc.
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Apple GS/OS
GS/OS is an operating system developed by Apple Computer for its Apple IIGS personal computer.
Apple II
The Apple II series of microcomputers was initially designed by Steve Wozniak, manufactured by Apple Computer (now Apple Inc.), and launched in 1977 with the Apple II model that gave the series its name. Apple III and Apple II are Discontinued Apple Inc. products.
Apple II Plus
The Apple II Plus (stylized as Apple.
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Apple IIc
The Apple IIc is a personal computer introduced by Apple Inc. shortly after the launch of the original Macintosh in 1984.
Apple IIe
The Apple IIe (styled as Apple //e) is the third model in the Apple II series of personal computers produced by Apple Computer.
Apple III
The Apple III (styled as apple /// or Apple |. Apple III and apple III are 8-bit computers, apple II family, computer-related introductions in 1980, Discontinued Apple Inc. products and products and services discontinued in 1984.
Apple Inc.
Apple Inc. is an American multinational corporation and technology company headquartered in Cupertino, California, in Silicon Valley.
Apple Lisa
Lisa is a desktop computer developed by Apple, produced from January 19, 1983 to August 1, 1986, and succeeded by Macintosh. Apple III and Apple Lisa are Discontinued Apple Inc. products.
Apple ProFile
The ProFile (codenamed Pippin) is the first hard disk drive produced by Apple Computer, initially for use with the Apple III personal computer. Apple III and Apple ProFile are apple II family.
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Apple SOS
The Sophisticated Operating System, or SOS, is the primary operating system of the Apple III computer.
Apple Writer
Apple Writer is a word processor for the Apple II family of personal computers.
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Applesoft BASIC
Applesoft BASIC is a dialect of Microsoft BASIC, developed by Marc McDonald and Ric Weiland, supplied with Apple II computers.
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Backward compatibility
In telecommunications and computing, backward compatibility (or backwards compatibility) is a property of an operating system, software, real-world product, or technology that allows for interoperability with an older legacy system, or with input designed for such a system.
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Bank switching
Bank switching is a technique used in computer design to increase the amount of usable memory beyond the amount directly addressable by the processor instructions.
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Bitwise operation
In computer programming, a bitwise operation operates on a bit string, a bit array or a binary numeral (considered as a bit string) at the level of its individual bits.
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Boolean data type
In computer science, the Boolean (sometimes shortened to Bool) is a data type that has one of two possible values (usually denoted true and false) which is intended to represent the two truth values of logic and Boolean algebra.
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Byte
The byte is a unit of digital information that most commonly consists of eight bits.
Byte (magazine)
Byte (stylized as BYTE) was a microcomputer magazine, influential in the late 1970s and throughout the 1980s because of its wide-ranging editorial coverage.
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Central processing unit
A central processing unit (CPU), also called a central processor, main processor, or just processor, is the most important processor in a given computer.
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Chip creep
Chip creep refers to the problem of an integrated circuit (chip) working its way out of its socket over time.
Classic Mac OS
Mac OS (originally System Software; retronym: Classic Mac OS) is the series of operating systems developed for the Macintosh family of personal computers by Apple Computer, Inc. from 1984 to 2001, starting with System 1 and ending with Mac OS 9.
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Codebase
In software development, a codebase (or code base) is a collection of source code used to build a particular software system, application, or software component.
Computer-aided design
Computer-aided design (CAD) is the use of computers to aid in the creation, modification, analysis, or optimization of a design.
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Computer-aided manufacturing
Computer-aided manufacturing (CAM) also known as computer-aided modeling or computer-aided machining is the use of software to control machine tools in the manufacturing of work pieces.
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CP/M
CP/M, originally standing for Control Program/Monitor and later Control Program for Microcomputers, is a mass-market operating system created in 1974 for Intel 8080/85-based microcomputers by Gary Kildall of Digital Research, Inc. CP/M is a disk operating system and its purpose is to organize files on a magnetic storage medium, and to load and run programs stored on a disk.
Device driver
In the context of an operating system, a device driver is a computer program that operates or controls a particular type of device that is attached to a computer or automaton.
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Digital-to-analog converter
In electronics, a digital-to-analog converter (DAC, D/A, D2A, or D-to-A) is a system that converts a digital signal into an analog signal.
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Directory (computing)
In computing, a directory is a file system cataloging structure which contains references to other computer files, and possibly other directories.
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Disk controller
A disk controller is a controller circuit that enables a CPU to communicate with a hard disk, floppy disk or other kind of disk drive.
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Disk II
The Disk II Floppy Disk Subsystem, often rendered as Disk. Apple III and Disk II are apple II family.
Drawing board
A drawing board (also drawing table, drafting table or architect's table) is, in its antique form, a kind of multipurpose desk which can be used for any kind of drawing, writing or impromptu sketching on a large sheet of paper or for reading a large format book or other oversized document or for drafting precise technical illustrations (such as engineering drawings or architectural drawings).
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Dvorak keyboard layout
Dvorak is a keyboard layout for English patented in 1936 by August Dvorak and his brother-in-law, William Dealey, as a faster and more ergonomic alternative to the QWERTY layout (the ''de facto'' standard keyboard layout).
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Electromagnetic interference
Electromagnetic interference (EMI), also called radio-frequency interference (RFI) when in the radio frequency spectrum, is a disturbance generated by an external source that affects an electrical circuit by electromagnetic induction, electrostatic coupling, or conduction.
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Emulator
In computing, an emulator is hardware or software that enables one computer system (called the host) to behave like another computer system (called the guest).
Federal Communications Commission
The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) is an independent agency of the United States government that regulates communications by radio, television, wire, satellite, and cable across the United States.
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File Allocation Table
File Allocation Table (FAT) is a file system developed for personal computers and was the default filesystem for MS-DOS and Windows 9x operating systems.
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File system
In computing, a file system or filesystem (often abbreviated to FS or fs) governs file organization and access.
Floating-point arithmetic
In computing, floating-point arithmetic (FP) is arithmetic that represents subsets of real numbers using an integer with a fixed precision, called the significand, scaled by an integer exponent of a fixed base.
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Floppy disk
A floppy disk or floppy diskette (casually referred to as a floppy, a diskette, or a disk) is a type of disk storage composed of a thin and flexible disk of a magnetic storage medium in a square or nearly square plastic enclosure lined with a fabric that removes dust particles from the spinning disk.
Fortran
Fortran (formerly FORTRAN) is a third generation, compiled, imperative programming language that is especially suited to numeric computation and scientific computing.
Function (computer programming)
In computer programming, a function, procedure, method, subroutine, routine, or subprogram is a callable unit of software logic that has a well-defined interface and behavior and can be invoked multiple times.
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Hard disk drive
A hard disk drive (HDD), hard disk, hard drive, or fixed disk is an electro-mechanical data storage device that stores and retrieves digital data using magnetic storage with one or more rigid rapidly rotating platters coated with magnetic material.
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Heat sink
A heat sink (also commonly spelled heatsink) is a passive heat exchanger that transfers the heat generated by an electronic or a mechanical device to a fluid medium, often air or a liquid coolant, where it is dissipated away from the device, thereby allowing regulation of the device's temperature.
Hertz
The hertz (symbol: Hz) is the unit of frequency in the International System of Units (SI), equivalent to one event (or cycle) per second.
Hexadecimal
In mathematics and computing, the hexadecimal (also base-16 or simply hex) numeral system is a positional numeral system that represents numbers using a radix (base) of sixteen.
Hierarchical file system
In computing, a hierarchical file system is a file system that uses directories to organize files into a tree structure.
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IBM Personal Computer
The IBM Personal Computer (model 5150, commonly known as the IBM PC) is the first microcomputer released in the IBM PC model line and the basis for the IBM PC compatible ''de facto'' standard.
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IMac
The iMac is a series of all-in-one computers from Apple Inc. operating on the MacOS.
InfoWorld
InfoWorld (IW) is an American information technology media business.
Interlaced video
Interlaced video (also known as interlaced scan) is a technique for doubling the perceived frame rate of a video display without consuming extra bandwidth.
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Jeff Bridges
Jeffrey Leon Bridges (born December 4, 1949) is an American actor and musician.
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Jerry Manock
Jerrold Clifford Manock (born February 21, 1944) is an American industrial designer.
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KansasFest
KansasFest (also known as KFest) is an annual event for Apple II computer enthusiasts. Apple III and KansasFest are apple II family.
Kilobyte
The kilobyte is a multiple of the unit byte for digital information.
Macintosh 128K
The Macintosh, later rebranded as the Macintosh 128K, is the original Macintosh personal computer, from Apple.
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Macintosh File System
Macintosh File System (MFS) is a volume format (or disk file system) created by Apple Computer for storing files on 400K floppy disks.
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Mainframe computer
A mainframe computer, informally called a mainframe or big iron, is a computer used primarily by large organizations for critical applications like bulk data processing for tasks such as censuses, industry and consumer statistics, enterprise resource planning, and large-scale transaction processing.
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Market segmentation
In marketing, market segmentation or customer segmentation is the process of dividing a consumer or business market into meaningful sub-groups of current or potential customers (or consumers) known as segments.
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Microsoft
Microsoft Corporation is an American multinational corporation and technology company headquartered in Redmond, Washington.
MOS Technology 6502
The MOS Technology 6502 (typically pronounced "sixty-five-oh-two") William Mensch and the moderator both pronounce the 6502 microprocessor as "sixty-five-oh-two".
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Multiplan
Multiplan is a spreadsheet program developed by Microsoft and introduced in 1982 as a competitor to VisiCalc.
National Semiconductor
National Semiconductor was an American semiconductor manufacturer which specialized in analog devices and subsystems, formerly with headquarters in Santa Clara, California.
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Numeric keypad
A numeric keypad, number pad, numpad, or ten key, is the palm-sized, usually-17-key section of a standard computer keyboard, usually on the far right.
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Operating system
An operating system (OS) is system software that manages computer hardware and software resources, and provides common services for computer programs.
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Paddle (game controller)
A paddle is a game controller with a round wheel and one or more fire buttons, where the wheel is typically used to control movement of the player object along one axis of the video screen.
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PCMag
PC Magazine (shortened as PCMag) is an American computer magazine published by Ziff Davis.
PEEK and POKE
In computing, PEEK and POKE are commands used in some high-level programming languages for accessing the contents of a specific memory cell referenced by its memory address.
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QWERTY
QWERTY is a keyboard layout for Latin-script alphabets.
Read-only memory
Read-only memory (ROM) is a type of non-volatile memory used in computers and other electronic devices.
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Real-time clock
A real-time clock (RTC) is an electronic device (most often in the form of an integrated circuit) that measures the passage of time.
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Research and development
Research and development (R&D or R+D; also known in Europe as research and technological development or RTD) is the set of innovative activities undertaken by corporations or governments in developing new services or products and carrier science computer marketplace e-commerce, copy center and service maintenance troubleshooting software, hardware improving existing ones.
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Serial port
A serial port is a serial communication interface through which information transfers in or out sequentially one bit at a time.
Signal trace
In electronics, a signal trace or circuit trace on a printed circuit board (PCB) or integrated circuit (IC) is the equivalent of a wire for conducting signals.
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Stack (abstract data type)
In computer science, a stack is an abstract data type that serves as a collection of elements with two main operations.
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Steve Jobs
Steven Paul Jobs (February 24, 1955 – October 5, 2011) was an American businessman, inventor, and investor best known for co-founding the technology company Apple Inc. Jobs was also the founder of NeXT and chairman and majority shareholder of Pixar.
Steve Wozniak
Stephen Wozniak (born August 11, 1950), also known by his nickname "Woz", is an American technology entrepreneur, electrical engineer, computer programmer, philanthropist, and inventor. Apple III and Steve Wozniak are apple II family.
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String (computer science)
In computer programming, a string is traditionally a sequence of characters, either as a literal constant or as some kind of variable.
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Synertek
Synertek, Inc. was an American semiconductor manufacturer founded in 1973.
Tron
Tron (stylized as TRON) is a 1982 American science fiction action adventure film written and directed by Steven Lisberger from a story by Lisberger and Bonnie MacBird.
United States dollar
The United States dollar (symbol: $; currency code: USD; also abbreviated US$ to distinguish it from other dollar-denominated currencies; referred to as the dollar, U.S. dollar, American dollar, or colloquially buck) is the official currency of the United States and several other countries.
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VisiCalc
VisiCalc ("visible calculator") is the first spreadsheet computer program for personal computers, originally released for the Apple II by VisiCorp on October 17, 1979.
W. W. Norton & Company
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Walt Disney Pictures
Walt Disney Pictures is an American film production company and subsidiary of Walt Disney Studios, a division of Disney Entertainment, which is owned by The Walt Disney Company.
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Wave soldering
Wave soldering is a bulk soldering process used for the manufacturing of printed circuit boards.
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Wire wrap
Close-up of a wire-wrap connection Typical wire wrap construction of Bell System telephone crossbar switch. Some types of connection were soldered. Wire wrap is an electronic component assembly technique that was invented to wire telephone crossbar switches, and later adapted to construct electronic circuit boards.
8-bit computing
In computer architecture, 8-bit integers or other data units are those that are 8 bits wide (1 octet). Apple III and 8-bit computing are 8-bit computers.
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See also
8-bit computers
- 8-bit computing
- Acorn Atom
- Altair 8800
- Apple II (original)
- Apple III
- Compucolor
- Comx-35
- Corvette (computer)
- Cromemco Z-2
- CyberVision 2001
- Datapoint 2200
- Epson QX-10
- GEC 2050
- IMSAI 8080
- Kaypro
- Kenbak-1
- MCM/70
- MERA 300
- Mark-8
- Micral
- Micro Expander
- Sol-20
- TRS-80
- TRS-80 Color Computer
- Telmac 1800
- Telmac TMC-600
- VT180
- VideoBrain Family Computer
- Visual 1050
- Xerox 820
- Zenith Z-89
Apple II family
- Apple Computer, Inc. v. Franklin Computer Corp.
- Apple I
- Apple II graphics
- Apple II peripheral cards
- Apple III
- Apple IIe Card
- Apple ProFile
- Apple Pugetsound Program Library Exchange
- Applied Engineering
- Bill Fernandez
- Cc65
- Daniel Kottke
- Disk II
- Group coded recording
- Hard Disk 20SC
- ITT 2020
- KansasFest
- Margot Comstock
- Mega II
- Mountain Computer
- MouseText
- Rod Holt
- Shepardson Microsystems
- Steve Wozniak
- Timeline of the Apple II series
- Z-80 SoftCard
- Acorn Atom
- Apple III
- Atari 810
- BASICODE
- Chinese Character Code for Information Interchange
- Code page 437
- ComPAN 8
- D8000
- DAI Personal Computer
- Dual-ported video RAM
- Ethernet
- HP 9845C
- IBM 5120
- IMKO-1
- Intel 8087
- MicroAce
- Philips P2000
- Pocket computer
- Portal (computer)
- Quantum computing
- Sharp PC-1211
- TRS-80 Color Computer
- Tandy Pocket Computer
- Usenet
- User Datagram Protocol
- VIC-20
- VT640
- Video Genie
- X87
- Xerox Character Code Standard
- Z-80 SoftCard
- ZX80
Products and services discontinued in 1984
References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_III
Also known as Apple ///, Apple 3, Apple Business BASIC, Apple III Plus, Apple III+.
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