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One of the early strengths of the Apple II line was its set of internal expansion card slots, sometimes reffered to as edge connector sockets. Into these slots were inserted Apple II Peripheral Cards, which added functionality to the system and users generally simply called "cards." Perhaps the most common card is the Disk II Controller Card, which allows users of earlier Apple II's to use a 5.25" floppy disk drive. The typical Apple II, aside from the portable Apple IIc series, had seven 50 pin expansion slots, labeled Slots 1 though 7. These slots could hold printed circuit board cards with double-sided edge connectors, 25 "fingers" on each side, with 100 mil center spacing between fingers. This card edge connector fit exactly into the slot with the fingers matching up with the slot's electrical contacts. Through these slots, the Apple II could be expanded beyond the wildest dreams of early adopters, and far beyond what were then contempory computers. Both Apple Computer and dozens of third-party vendors created hundreds of cards for the Apple II series of computers. Even today, long after the last Apple IIe came off of the assembly line in 1993, a handful of manufacturers are still making peripheral and expansion cards for Apple II computers. The Apple II was one of the most popular personal computers of the 1980s. ... Fitting an expansion card into a motherboard An expansion card in computing is a printed circuit board that can be inserted into an expansion slot of a computer motherboard to add additional functionality to a computer system. ... A floppy disk is a data storage device that comprises a circular piece of thin, flexible (hence floppy) magnetic storage medium encased in a square or rectangular plastic wallet. ... The Apple II was one of the most popular personal computers of the 1980s. ... Close-up photo of one side of a motherboard PCB, showing conductive traces, vias and solder points for through-hole components on the opposite side. ... An edge connector is a type of electrical connector for use with PC boards. ... Mil can refer to a number of different things. ... Apple Computer, Inc. ... The Apple IIe was the third model in the Apple II line of personal computers, produced by Apple Computer. ... A peripheral is a type of computer hardware that is added to a host computer in order to expand its abilities. ...

In addition to the seven standard slots, the following computers contained these other slots for expansion:

• Apple II & Apple II Plus: 50 pin "Slot 0"
• Apple IIe: 60 pin "Auxillary Slot"
• Apple IIGS: 40 pin "Memory Expansion Slot"

Card Categories

Apple II cards can be broadly divided into the following categories:

• Apple II serial cards
• Apple II parallel cards
• Apple II multi I/O cards
• Apple II internal modems
• Apple II 80 column and RGB cards (Standard 50 pin slot type)
• Apple II floppy disk controllers
• Apple II hard disk controllers
• Apple II network adapters
• Apple II processor cards
• Apple II memory expansion cards (Standard 50 pin Slot type, "Slinky cards")
• Apple IIe auxillary cards Memory / 80-Column / RGB (IIe 60 pin Aux Slot type)
• Apple IIGS memory expansion cards (GS Memory 40 pin Slot type)
• Apple II accelerators
• Apple IIGS accelerators
• Apple II system clocks
• Apple II sound cards
• Apple II miscellaneous cards
• Apple IIc internal expansion cards
• Apple II cards which never made it into production

Apple II accelerators are computer hardware devices which enable an Apple II computer to operate faster than their intended design speed. ...

External Links to Current Apple II Peripheral Manufacturers

• [GSE-Reactive] hard drive and floppy controllers, GS RAM card, Mockingboard clone, replacement powersupply, No-Slot Clock
• [R & D Automation] CFFA Compact Flash / IDE interface card
• [A2 Retrosystems] Uther ethernet card
• [SVD] Semi Virtual Diskette: solid state 5.25" disk drive emulator
• [///SHH Systeme] hard drive and floppy drive controllers, LanceGS ethernet card, Transwarp 32k cache board
• [8 Bit Baby] 8 Bit Baby prototyping board
• [RC Systems] DoubleTalk (Echo and Slotbuster compatible) speech synthesiser card

The Mockingboard was a sound card for the Apple II family of microcomputers built by Sweet Micro Systems. ... In physics, the solid state is one of the three phases of matter (solid, liquid, and gas). ...

External Links about Apple II Cards

• Apple II Expansion Cards
• apple2info.net's hardware page – in-depth detail about some Apple II cards
• Apple II Interface Cards – images of many cards
• Tony Diaz's Apple2.org
• Steven Weyhrich's Apple II History