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In addition to the seven standard expansion slots, the following computers contained additional, largely special-purpose expansion slots:
  • Apple II and Apple II Plus: 50-pin "Slot 0" (e. g., for the 16-kB ''Apple II Language Card'')

  • Apple IIe: 60-pin "Auxiliary Slot" (primarily for 80-column display and memory expansion)

  • Apple IIGS: 40-pin "Memory Expansion Slot"


Perhaps the most common cards found on early Apple II systems were the Disk II Controller Card, which allowed users of earlier Apple II's to use the Apple Disk II, a 5¼-inch, 140-kB Floppy Disk Drive ; and the Apple 16K Language Card, which increased the base memory of late-model Apple IIs and standard Apple II Pluses from 48 kB to 64 kB. Both Apple Computer, Inc. , and dozens of third-party vendors created hundreds of cards for the Apple II series of computers. These expansion slots afforded virtually limitless opportunities for expansion, far beyond what was available on other microcomputers of the time. Even today, long after the last Apple IIe came off Apple's assembly line in 1993, a handful of manufacturers continue to market Peripheral s and expansion cards for Apple II computers, not counting the hundreds of students, hobbyists, and other loyal Apple II users who continue to push the original machine to the limits.


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