Talk:Apple III

message: any reason why this article writes "///" instead of "III"? -- Tarquin 18:43 Feb 9, 2003 (UTC)
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It was standard form when referring to the pre-Macintosh Apple machines, intended to recall the styling of the machines' logos. "Apple II" was generally written "Apple ][" and the Apple III used slashes.
: Liam Proven 14:14, 21 Jun 2004 (UTC)
replies: text: That was also the way the Apple /// was listed in all the Apple textbooks and manuals.KAS 14:04, 29 May 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: And very important, the metal ID badge on the front case of the Apple III and III Plus had the model number three printed as three forward slashes: "///"--Apple2gs 20:06, 29 May 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: ///

message: The info box claims that the /// was discontinued in April 1984, but toward the end of the Apple III Plus paragraph it's listed as September 1985. Which is it?  AngusCA (talk) 21:07, 16 May 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: Fixed the date. I don't know where September 1985 came from. Groink (talk) 10:01, 2 August 2009 (UTC)
replies: text:  Apple ceased development of the /// in April of 1984.  It continued to sell existing stock and parts until September 1985, when the /// was removed from Apple's price list. A2-computist (talk) 21:46, 16 September 2014 (UTC)
thread_title: Contradiction on Discontinuation Date

message: "The Apple III (often rendered as Apple ///) ..."
Italics constitute an alternate name??  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 74.92.174.105 (talk) 18:31, 31 October 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: That's correct. On the cover, Apple used three forward-slashes to write the "///". It is like the Apple II, where it used a right and left bracket "][" to write the "II". You don't see them written like that today, but when you read articles written back in the 1980s about these machines, "][" and "///" were used quite a bit. Groink (talk) 18:39, 31 October 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  How are these different? 

message: An explanation of my recent edit about the keyboard issue.
Somebody seems to have inferred that the uppercase-only limitations of the Apple II were due to the influence of Teletype keyboards. Teletypes did influence the design of Apple keyboards (and PC keyboards, for that matter; that's why you have a control key) but this has nothing to with the the Apple II limitation, which stemmed from the extra resources needed to represent a full ASCII character set. Note that the first Teletypes that supported mixed case were introduced a full decade before the Apple II. Isaac Rabinovitch (talk) 03:26, 9 June 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  The Apple II uppercase limitation 

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