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Anatomy of an Icon: Inside the Apple IIc

At 7.5 pounds, the Apple IIc portable computer was the MacBook Air of 1984. Ever wonder what makes up a vintage classic? We took one apart to find out.

The Mother of All Boards

At this point, it's just us and the motherboard. One of the first things you'll notice is the long line of RAM chips on the far-right side of the board. The stock IIc came with 128KB of RAM, which was plenty for most Apple II applications of the day. Natively, the 6502 could address only 64KB at a time, so bank switching hardware was needed to take advantage of anything above that.

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