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The Apple II was Apple's first complete home computer sold to the general public. It was truly a computer for the "rest of us." It was based on Woz's Apple I motherboard, but came complete in its own case with its own power supply. In order to avoid FCC regulations involving radio frequencies, the Apple II produced a composite signal that could be converted to UHF/VHF to hook to a TV via a third party adaptor. To avoid FCC regulations, this adaptor was not available from Apple and not part of the motherboard's hard-wired architecture. This allowed Apple to produce a powerful machine without having to cripple the disk drives or any other peripheral due to the restrictive rules governing radio signals, which hampered the designs of many of its competitors including Tandy, Commodore, and Atari.
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