Editing Apple II (section)

===Apple II Plus===
{{Main|Apple II Plus}}
[[File:Apple II Plus.jpg|thumb|Apple II Plus]]

The Apple II Plus, introduced in June 1979,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://apple2history.org/history/ah06.html|title=Apple II History Chap 6|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100710011643/http://apple2history.org/history/ah06.html|archive-date=July 10, 2010|df=mdy-all}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://lowendmac.com/orchard/05/0509.html|title=Macintosh Prehistory: The Apple I and Apple II Era|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071014022114/http://lowendmac.com/orchard/05/0509.html|archive-date=October 14, 2007|df=mdy-all}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://applemuseum.bott.org/sections/products.html|title=Apple Products|url-status=live|archive-url=http://archive.wikiwix.com/cache/20111010210939/http://applemuseum.bott.org/sections/products.html|archive-date=October 10, 2011|df=mdy-all}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://lrs.ed.uiuc.edu/students/madkins/timeline.html|title=EDTechTimeline|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071018104250/http://lrs.ed.uiuc.edu/students/madkins/timeline.html|archive-date=October 18, 2007|df=mdy-all|access-date=June 25, 2007}}</ref> included the [[Applesoft BASIC]] programming language in [[Read-only memory|ROM.]] This [[Microsoft]]-authored dialect of BASIC, which was previously available as an upgrade, supported floating-point arithmetic, and became the standard BASIC dialect on the Apple II series (though it ran at a noticeably slower speed than Steve Wozniak's Integer BASIC).

Except for improved graphics and disk-booting support in the ROM, and the removal of the 2k 6502 assembler to make room for the floating point BASIC, the II+ was otherwise identical to the original II in terms of electronic functionality. There were small differences in the physical appearance and keyboard. RAM prices fell during 1980–81 and all II+ machines came from the factory with a full 48 KB of memory already installed.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.fas.org/irp/doddir/army/fm34_3.pdf|title=U.S. Army Field Manual 34-3, Intelligence Analysis|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110604064552/http://www.fas.org/irp/doddir/army/fm34_3.pdf|archive-date=June 4, 2011|df=mdy-all}}</ref>

====Apple II Europlus and J-Plus====
[[File:Apple II plus.jpg|thumb|Apple II Europlus]]
[[File:Apple II J-Plus.jpg|thumb|Apple II J-Plus]]

After the success of the first Apple II in the United States, Apple expanded its market to include Europe, the Middle East, Australia and the Far East in 1979, with the '''Apple II Europlus''' (Europe, Australia) and the '''Apple II J-Plus''' (Japan). In these models, Apple made the necessary hardware, software and [[firmware]] changes in order to comply to standards outside of the US.