Editing Apple II (section)

===Apple IIe===
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The Apple II Plus was followed in 1983 by the Apple IIe, a cost-reduced yet more powerful machine that used newer chips to reduce the component count and add new features, such as the display of upper and lowercase letters and a standard 64&nbsp;KB of RAM.

The IIe RAM was configured as if it were a 48&nbsp;KB Apple II Plus with a language card. The machine had no slot 0, but instead had an auxiliary slot that could accept a 1&nbsp;KB memory card to enable the 80-column display. This card contained only RAM; the hardware and firmware for the 80-column display was built into the Apple IIe. An "extended 80-column card" with more memory increased the machine's RAM to 128&nbsp;KB.

The Apple IIe was the most popular machine in the Apple II series. It has the distinction of being the longest-lived Apple computer of all time&mdash;it was manufactured and sold with only minor changes for nearly 11 years. The IIe was the last Apple II model to be sold, and was discontinued in November 1993.

During its lifespan two variations were introduced: the '''Apple IIe Enhanced''' (four replacement chips to give it some of the features of the later model [[Apple IIc]]) and the '''Apple IIe Platinum''' (a modernized case color to match other Apple products of the era, along with the addition of a [[numeric keypad]]).

Some of the feature of the IIe were carried over from the less successful ''[[Apple III]]'', among them the [[Apple ProDOS|ProDOS]] operating system.