If you have used an Apple //c you notice some things.
It really is compact. That was one of the things I liked about it. I remember looking at the //e and the //e seems much bigger.
All then features that I thought I would need were included in the //c. It had the built in drive, 80 column support and serial ports for the modem and printing.
Were there features that I could have added if I went with a //e? Yes, but none I ended up needing.
I really like this little machine even though it is the exact oposite of the machine I have been describing as a future machine. Rather than being really expandable, it was built with the features they believed everybody would want, sort of pre-expanded.
One form of expansion the //c has built in, after the rom 255 version, was the ability to use the 3.5″ unidisk. On the //e, in order to use any disk drive other than the 5 1/4″ requires a rare and sometimes hard to find adapter.
If I was going to get an Apple II, I would get an Apple //c, unless I needed something that had a special requirement for the //e.
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