Apple III
From Comp Resource
| Apple III | |
|---|---|
| Made in: | 1980 |
| Discontinued: | 1985 |
| OS: | SOS |
| RAM: | 128 KB to 256 KB |
The Apple III was one of Apple's first business computers. It was designed as a heatsink with no cooling vents. It could run the Sophisticated Operating System (SOS), the precursor to ProDOS. It had an internal floppy drive, and it could also support Apple's Profile hard drive in its 5 MB configuration and external floppy disk drives.
Problems
The Apple III has many problems. First, the heatsink design (which had no cooling fan or vents, suggested by Steve Jobs) caused the chips on some boards to melt off their boards. Apple's recommended solution was to pick the computer up a few inches and drop it. Also, Some users reported that the disks in its internal disk drive were "melted". Another problem was the internal clock (an Apple first at the time) would fail after extended use.
It was also very expensive out of any business computers selling at that time ($4,340 to $7,800 US).
