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Apple's own options from over the years for floppy disk drives for the Apple II took up this cover. (Third-party possibilities did get mentioned inside.) Some of them would also hook up to the Macintosh, but A+ had just discontinued its coverage of that computer. With the Apple II approaching its tenth anniversary, Steve Wozniak was interviewed along with some additional coverage.

A subject increasingly linked with the Apple II going forward provided the focus for this issue. It did interview Delbert "Del" Yocam, who directed "the development, manufacturing, management, quality and distribution of all Apple products" (and whose picture in the magazine was mirrored given the Mac and IIe in the background), who focused on education but did offer "a glimpse of the new Apple II, the 16-bit 'Super II'" while mentioning the "Apple II Forever" slogan. A non-Apple computer, the Laser 128, was reviewed.

Word processors were examined in this issue, divided into three categories from "Student Use" (which included FrEdWriter, the "Free Education Writer," and Bank Street Writer) through "Personal Use" (which included The Bard's "Pro-Am" Apple IIe/c Writing System and AppleWorks) to "Power Use" (which culminated in WordPerfect). While the Apple IIc and IIgs could switch their keyboards into Dvorak mode (and potentially even rearrange their keycaps), a type-in program was included here to remap the keyboards of older models. Anita Malnig's editorial said there would be a drawing to give away an Apple IIgs system at the Consumer Electronics Show in June and there was a "Next Issue" sidebar promising an "Apollo Space Flight Simulator" and a feature on "Videodiscs and Apples," but this is the last issue of II Computing available on the Internet Archive, extending one issue past where "Apple II History" is aware of...

Graphics, with a particular emphasis on graphics for business presentations, provided the feature articles for this issue. There were examinations of systems to photograph your Apple's monitor and create colour slides from that. Maggie Canon's editorial looked at the Fall COMDEX and concluded that where 1983's version of the trade event had viewed Apple "as a seriously wounded soldier in the war with IBM," in 1984 the company had "many of its wounds healed" and was "strong and confident."

Atari computers weren't the only small computers being promoted through the 1984 Summer Olympics, as this issue was ready to point out. The Apple IIc was once more compared to the IBM PCjr in the high-end home computer space, and the Macintosh section offered some type-in programs to exercise the computer's four-voice sound hardware and mentioned a service that would turn screen dumps and other MacPaint images into typeset graphics suitable for printing.

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