Lol... But the system was not the problem. It was the best OS for a 8-bit computer ever released. It became later (with minor changes) ProDOS, the last OS for 8-bit Apple II computers. Honestly, it was REALLY wonderful. The problem was the hardware. And Steve Jobs' dogmatism.
I love this machine. Best looking computer I’ve seen. I’d love to add one to my vintage collection but they’re so rare, it’s hard to ever find one for sale - that and they’re insanely expensive.
I’d suggest you get in touch with this person if you’re serious about wanting one. They may be looking to sell. www.reddit.com/r/VintageApple/comments/inpnru/apple_iii_with_some_accessories_what_is_it_worth/?
Yes. I even bought a book that had an assembler in the appendix - I typed it in (it was mostly BASIC data statements that got poked directly into memory) so I could teach myself assembly language programming on my Commodore 64.
I think that Steve Jobs actively undermined it's development, so that his handpicked team for the Mac would be the Apple favorite, and he could muscle out his co-founder Wozniak.
I had a Apple III or II when I was little back in the 90's. I don't remember which one it was. All I know was I was to play pacman off a floppy disc on the black and green screen. Then my mom got rid of it. It would of been something really cool to have now.
Wow green screen Monitor /// - I had a Monitor /// on my ][+ but it was not green, it was white, and it had the anti-glare mask on the screen. oh the memories!
It had a problem with overheating. It had no fans, as Steve Jobs wanted the machine to be silent. It could get so hot that the soldering on the chips would melt and the components would disconnect. One solution (which Apple themselves would recommend) was to drop the computer so the chips would reseat.
Imagine if you worked for the first time in Apple at the age of 17 as an Apple programmer 3 and still work at Apple until now, you might laugh watching this video
@@belethon apple iii also have notorious hardware issues and it was designed by the wrong people actually. It was designed by the Apple‘s marketing department instead of the engineering stuff.
Apple did contlessly not fully replicate the apple 2 on this machine because they wanted to get rid-off their stockpile of apple 2s first. After that they may have came up with an emulator wich no longer had memory restrictions in order to allow full compatibility with apple 2 software. BTW despites being only 8bits,it somehow did had overheating problems causing even floppy disks to melt.
