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The Apple IIe ( styled as Apple // e ) is the third ___MASK93___ in the Apple II series of personal computers produced by Apple Computer . The " e " in the name stands for " enhanced ", referring to the fact that several popular features were now built - in that were available only as upgrades or add - ons in earlier models . It also improved upon expandability and added a few new features , which , all combined , made it very attractive to first - time computer shoppers as a general - purpose machine . The Apple IIe has the distinction of being the longest - lived computer in Apple ' s history , having been manufactured and sold for nearly 11 years with relatively few changes . Stephen ( or Stephan ) Gary " Steve " Wozniak ( born August 11 , 1950 ), nicknamed " Woz ", is an American ___MASK100___ , electronics ___MASK23___ , programmer , and technology entrepreneur who co - founded Apple Inc . He is known as a pioneer of the personal computer revolution of the 1970s and 1980s , along with Apple co - founder Steve Jobs . The IBM System / 360 introduced byte - addressable memory with 8 - bit bytes , as opposed to bit - addressable or decimal digit - addressable or word - addressable memory , although its ___MASK7___ purpose registers were 32 bits wide , and addresses were contained in the lower 24 bits of those addresses . Different models of System / 360 had different internal data path widths ; the IBM System / 360 ___MASK93___ 30 ( 1965 ) implemented the 32 - bit System / 360 architecture , but had an 8 bit native path width , and performed 32 - bit arithmetic 8 bits at a time . Donald M . Brown is a ___MASK92___ programmer and the creator of Eamon , a long - running non - commercial RPG ___MASK92___ game series for the Apple II ___MASK92___ first released in 1980 . A microcomputer is a small , relatively inexpensive ___MASK92___ with a microprocessor as its central processing unit ( CPU ). It includes a microprocessor , memory , and minimal input / output ( I / O ) circuitry mounted on a single printed circuit board . Microcomputers became popular in the 1970s and 1980s with the advent of increasingly powerful microprocessors . The predecessors to these computers , mainframes and minicomputers , were comparatively much larger and more expensive ( though indeed present - day mainframes such as the IBM System z machines use one or more custom microprocessors as their CPUs ). Many microcomputers ( when equipped with a keyboard and screen for input and output ) are also personal computers ( in the generic sense ). The West Coast ___MASK92___ Faire was an annual ___MASK92___ industry conference and exposition most often associated with San Francisco , its first and most frequent venue . The first fair was held in 1977 and was organized by Jim Warren and Bob Reiling . At the time , it was the biggest ___MASK92___ show in the world , intended to popularize the personal ___MASK92___ in the home . The West Coast PC Faire was formed to provide a more specialized show . However , Apple stopped exhibiting at the West Coast ___MASK92___ Faire , refusing to exhibit at any show other than COMDEX that also had PC - based exhibits . In 1983 , Warren sold the rights to the Faire for US $ 3 million to Prentice Hall , who later sold it to Sheldon Adelson , the owner of Interface Group and COMDEX . In total , sixteen shows were held , with the last in 1991 . After Warren sold the show , it had a few more good years , and then declined rapidly . Steven Paul " Steve " Jobs ( February 24 , 1955  October 5 , 2011 ) was an American businessman , ___MASK100___ , and industrial ___MASK15___ . He was the co - founder , chairman , and chief executive officer ( CEO ) of Apple Inc .; CEO and majority ___MASK13___ of Pixar ; a member of The Walt Disney Company ' s board of directors following its acquisition of Pixar ; and founder , chairman , and CEO of NeXT . Jobs is widely recognized as a pioneer of the microcomputer revolution of the 1970s and 1980s , along with Apple co - founder Steve Wozniak . The Apple II is an 8 - bit home ___MASK92___ , one of the first highly successful mass - produced microcomputer products , designed primarily by Steve Wozniak ( Steve Jobs oversaw the development of the Apple II ' s foam - molded plastic case and Rod Holt developed the switching power supply ). It was introduced in 1977 at the West Coast ___MASK92___ Faire by Jobs and was the first consumer product sold by Apple ___MASK92___ . It is the first ___MASK93___ in a series of computers which were produced until Apple IIe production ceased in November 1993 . The Apple II marks Apple ' s first launch of a personal ___MASK92___ aimed at a consumer market  branded towards American households rather than businessmen or ___MASK92___ hobbyists . Apple ___MASK92___ 1 , also known later as the Apple I , or Apple - 1 , is a desktop ___MASK92___ released by the Apple ___MASK92___ Company ( now Apple Inc .) in 1976 . It was designed and hand - built by Steve Wozniak . Wozniak ' s friend Steve Jobs had the idea of selling the ___MASK92___ . The Apple I was Apple ' s first product , and to finance its creation , Jobs sold his only motorized means of transportation , a VW Microbus , for a few hundred dollars , and Wozniak sold his HP - 65 calculator for $ 500 ; however , Wozniak said that Jobs planned to use his bicycle if necessary . It was demonstrated in July 1976 at the Homebrew ___MASK92___ Club in Palo Alto , California . Home computers were a class of microcomputers entering the market in 1977 , and becoming common during the 1980s . They were marketed to consumers as affordable and accessible computers that , for the first time , were intended for the use of a single nontechnical user . These computers were a distinct market segment that typically cost much less than business , scientific or ___MASK85___ - oriented computers of the time such as the IBM PC , and were generally less powerful in terms of memory and expandability . However , a home ___MASK92___ often had better graphics and sound than contemporaneous business computers . Their most common uses were playing video games , but they were also regularly used for word processing , doing homework , and ___MASK38___ .