http://megalextoria.blogspot.com/2017/06/macrotech-apple-ii.html
In the 1980s, the various 8-bit computers available each had their own advantages and disadvantages. The Apple II was on the expensive side but one advantage it had was that it was easily expandable. Like today's PCs, most Apple II models had several expansion slots that various cards could be plugged into to provide additional functionality.
This particular ad is from a company called Macrotech and showcases several expansion cards for the Apple II, most of them memory expansion related. They would add anywhere from 16k to 128k to the existing system memory. Later on, memory expansion for the Apple II would become a little more standardized but in 1983 certain memory expansion cards tended to only work with certain software.
This ad is from the March 1983 issue of inCider.
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TIL you could take an Apple II up to 128K. Really appreciate your retrocomputing articles.
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The latest revision of the Apple II (the IIe) came with 128K stock. I think in 1983, when this ad came out, the latest revision of the Apple II was the II+. They came with 48k stock. These particular upgrades would have added as much as 128k to that but later on a 1MB expansion card would be released.
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Woah that should be on a t-shirt
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This was the first computer I used when I was about 14. Long Live the green screen.
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I had a Commodore 64 at home but in Middle School (7th and 8th grades) we had Apple IIs at school.
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With the colour screen. Man you were seriously cool.
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Yeah, it took a while to get there though. I got the Commodore 64 for Christmas one year, the disk drive the following year and then finally a monitor. Before that I had a tiny color tv I used.
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