The computer family from Apple that pioneered the microcomputer revolution. It was widely used in schools and home and manufactured up to 1994. Using an 8-bit 6502 microprocessor running at 1 MHz and ...

Apple Extended Keyboard II was the successor to, surprise, the Apple Extended Keyboard. Extended means that it had arrow and function keys, something the original Mac keyboard lacked. Steve Jobs hated ...

If you've still got an Apple II computer, you'd better install the new software update. The Apple II launched in 1977, and went on to sell over 5 million units over the next two decades. The success ...

With permission from Apple, The Computer History Museum and the Digibarn Computer Museum announced today it is publishing the original DOS source code for Apple’s 1978 Apple II. The Apple II was the ...

Yesterday, software developer John Brooks released what is clearly a work of pure love: the first update to an operating system for the Apple II computer family since 1993. ProDOS 2.4, released on the ...

In its day, the Apple II computer didn’t typically require active cooling. However, the increasing scarcity of replacement hardware convinced [Joshua Coleman] to come up with a more robust active ...

Taking a full-screen screenshot on a modern Mac or iPhone is just a matter of tapping a couple of buttons. But things used to be a whole lot more challenging, as longstanding Apple employee Chris ...

On July 4, as I arrived at my parents’ house for a week away from the Orbiting Ars Headquarters, I inherited a family heirloom of sorts: my father asked me if I’d want to take custody of an Apple II ...

We chose this user-submitted photo from our All Tech Flickr Pool to wrap up the week. This Apple II was among the first commercially successful personal computers, debuting in 1977. For many early ...

Vintage Apple products are surging in resale value, with rare, sealed devices turning into high-priced collectibles.

What’s more fun than porting an old game released for an old system such as the Apple IIgs to its 10-year-older predecessor, the Apple II from 1977? Cue [Deater]’s port of the classic video game ...