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The Apple III was meant to be a replacement for the venerable Apple II. Unfortunately, it suffered from a compromised design due in no small part to the Marketing Department's insistence that the III run Apple II software. The III could have been based on a more powerful, "modern" chip, but in order to emulate the II, Apple had to go with the antiquated 6502. It was just too expensive to put two chips on the motherboard. The Apple III would be Apple's worst disaster to date and it nearly ruined the company. Many of the earliest Apple III's that shipped were returned because of hardware failure. The Apple III ran too hot and had no internal cooling fan. Its chips had the bad habit of popping out of their sockets. The III was eventually killed in favor of the IIe, which carried on the Apple II nameplate for the remainder of the 80's and kept Apple financially healthy. Profile Links: |
