This chapter of the Apple II History will present an overview of hardware devices that were either significant in the advancement of the II, or unique, one-of-a-kind devices. This was due partly to gradually emerging standards that made it easier to design a single hardware device that would work on multiple computers, and in the case of the Macintosh, because of Apple’s decision to make peripherals somewhat compatible between the two computer lines. However, for a few years the Apple II still received the benefits from the “trickle-down” of some of the best new devices from other computers (SCSI disk devices and hand scanners, for example). By 1991, the Apple II unfortunately no longer held the front position it had been supplanted by the Macintosh and IBM PC and its clones. The Apple II, designed by a hacker to be as expandable as possible, was once a leader as a platform for launching new and unique hardware gadgets. The more popular the computer, the more variety found in hardware add-ons. In fact, the success of a computer has inevitably led to hackers designing something to make it do things it couldn’t do before. The ability to add an external hardware device to a computer has been present from the earliest days of the first Altair to the present.
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