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Back in the day, it was "Apple //c", not "Apple IIc"! The "II" was stylized differently for each of the different models.

• amyjess 10y ago
  If you have to render Apple's stylizations of their word marks in running text (an idea I dislike), then you're better off writing it as "Apple IIc". Semantically, it's still the Roman numeral for 2, and the Romans used the letter I twice for that, so let's use the proper codepoints and leave stylization to a font choice, which on the web means using some kind of markup language.
  • Reason077 10y ago
    "Apple //c" really is how it's written on the screen when you boot it up, though. That's the way Apple themselves actually wrote it. There were no built-in, on-screen italic fonts back in those days!
    • riprowan 10y ago
      I agree: these machine names are Apple ][, ][+, ][e, etc and the //c.
      • Reason077 10y ago
        Right! Except the IIe was "IIe", at least in later versions, wasn't it?