1980s Apple lll (Mac) brass mini size computer paperweight- November 1980

1980s Apple lll brass computer paperweight 

Very interesting piece with such a detail design for early 80s , thank you very much for the collector willing to release this precious item that she/he bought from apple store in California (US) during study abroad . And this item i bought from oversea collector and sent by Courier service to Malaysia .

Size ":  L4.5cm x W 4.0cm 

 

Sources : Wikipedia

The Apple III is a business-oriented personal computer released in 1980. Running the Apple SOS operating system, it was intended as the successor to the Apple II series, but was largely considered a failure in the market. It was designed to provide key features business users wanted in a personal computer: a true typewriter-style upper/lowercase keyboard (the Apple II only supported uppercase) and an 80-column display.

Work on the Apple III started in late 1978 under the guidance of Dr. Wendell Sander. It had the internal code name of "Sara", named after Sander's daughter.The system was announced on May 19, 1980 and released in late November that year. Serious stability issues required a design overhaul and a recall of the first 14,000 machines produced. The Apple III was formally reintroduced on November 9, 1981.

 Damage to the computer's reputation had already been done and it failed to do well commercially. Development stopped and the Apple III was discontinued on April 24, 1984, and its last successor, the III Plus, was dropped from the Apple product line in September 1985.

 An estimated 65,000–75,000 Apple III computers were sold.The Apple III Plus brought this up to approximately 120,000. Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak stated that the primary reason for the Apple III's failure was that the system was designed by Apple's marketing department, unlike Apple's previous engineering-driven projects.The Apple III's failure led Apple to reevaluate its plan to phase out the Apple II, prompting the eventual continuation of development of the older machine. As a result, later Apple II models incorporated some hardware and software technologies of the Apple III, such as the thermal Apple Scribe printer.

 Introductory price USD 4,340 to USD 7,800 ( Equivalent to USD13,470 to USD24,200 in 2019 )