It's been 30 years since the Apple II advanced the personal computer beyond the early quirky boxes and became the first love of many a budding gamer and programmer.

How influential is Apple? So much so that its products dominate the conversation, even when talk turns to every PC released in the last quarter century. Our colleagues at PC World recently ranked ...

It was called the Z80 SoftCard, and it was first released 43 years ago this month, on April 2, 1980. In an even more ironic twist, the product was made as an add-in card for the Apple II PC.

With her prize money Comstock bought an Apple II and began exploring the creative potential of the PC in the form of Softalk magazine, which launched its first issue in September, 1980.

It's the Apple II that made the company, kept it afloat, and even made it a cult success — but it was also the Apple II that Steve Jobs tried so hard to kill off with the Mac. It's the little ...

If you’re unfamiliar with Virtual Apple II, the Web site is one big Apple emulator. You can run over 1000 Apple IIe/IIc/IIgs applications through Active X controls in Internet Explorer.

An Apple II PC being sold by Commodore International in 1982? It came very close to happening, but luckily for Apple, Commodore rejected the idea, instead going with its revolutionary Commodore 64.

An Apple II PC being sold by Commodore International in 1982? It came very close to happening, but luckily for Apple, Commodore rejected the idea, instead going with its revolutionary Commodore 64.

At its heart is a single-board computer that features a 6.25 MHz W65C02 processor that’s similar to the 6502 chip used in classic PCs and game consoles like the Atari 2600 and Apple II, which ...

I have several old 5 1/4" disks containing some data files I would like to make available for usage on my PC. The files are from around 1986 and I believe were on an Apple II era machine.

The combination of the Apple II and VisiCalc became a hit with CPAs and accountants at first. As Dan Bricklin pointed out in an article on the Inventors of Modern Computer, "VisiCalc took 20 hours ...