The Great 80s

The Apple IIc, the fourth model in the Apple II series of personal computers released in 1984, was Apple Computer’s first endeavor to produce a portable computer. The end result was a luggable 7½ pound notebook-sized version of the Apple II that could easily be transported from place to place. The c in the name stood for compact, referring to the fact it was essentially a complete Apple II computer setup (minus display and power supply) squeezed into a small notebook sized housing. While sporting a built-in floppy drive and new rear peripheral expansion ports, it lacked the internal expansion slots and direct motherboard access of earlier Apple IIs, making it a closed system like the Macintosh. However that was the intended direction for this model—a more appliance-like machine, ready to use out of the box, requiring no technical know-how or experience to hook up and therefore attractive to first-time users.

Wikipedia contributors. Apple IIc. Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia. September 7, 2008, 14:00 UTC. Available at: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Apple_IIc&oldid=236862888. Accessed October 8, 2008.