Editing Apple IIc (section)

===Built-in cards and ports===
The equivalent of five [[expansion cards]] are built-in and integrated into the Apple IIc motherboard:{{r|ryan198407}} An [[Apple 80-Column Text Card|Extended 80-Column Text Card]], two [[Apple II serial cards|Super Serial Cards]], a Mouse Card, and a [[Disk II]] floppy drive controller card. The Apple IIc has 128&nbsp;KB [[Random-access memory|RAM]], 80-column text, and Double-Hi-Resolution graphics built-in and available right out of the box, unlike the IIe. The built-in cards are mapped to virtual slots so software from slot-based Apple II models know where to find them (i.e. mouse to virtual slot 4, serial cards to slot 1 and 2, floppy to slot 6, and so on). The entire Apple Disk II Card, used for controlling floppy drives, is part of the single chip called the "IWM" ([[Integrated Woz Machine]]).

In the rear of the machine are connection ports. The standard [[DE-9 connector|DE-9]] joystick connector doubles as a mouse interface, compatible with the same mice used by the [[Apple Lisa|Lisa]] and early [[Apple Macintosh|Macintosh]]es. Two serial ports are primarily for a printer and modem, and a floppy port connector supports a single external 5.25-inch drive (and later "intelligent" devices such as 3.5-inch drives and hard disks). A Video Expansion port provides rudimentary signals for add-on adapters but, alone, cannot directly generate a video signal (Apple produced an LCD and an RF-modulator for this port; the latter shipped with early IIc computers). A port connector ties into an internal 12&nbsp;V power converter for attaching batteries; this is where the large external power supply (dubbed "brick on a leash" by users) plugs in. The same composite video port found on earlier Apple II models is present, but not the cassette ports or internal DIP-16 game port.