| - The ability to use desk accessories—miniature applications like a notepad, a calculator, a clock--without leaving your main application.
- Built-in 80-column capability, so you don't need to add a special interface card to get the 80-column display required by many business applications.
- Choice of color for text, background, and border of display.
- By using software designed for the purpose, you can generate 15-voice sound and even speech.
- Built-in support for standard peripheral devices through ports on the back panel, so you can add up to four disk drives (either 3.5-inch or 5.25-inch), a printer, a modem, a mouse, a monochrome monitor, an analog RGB color monitor; and you can plug into an AppleTalk network without using interface cards.
- Seven general-purpose slots for adding devices that require a non-standard interface—devices like home control devices, a hard disk, and so on.
- A memory expansion slot. By putting a special memory card in the memory expansion slot, you can add 1 to 8 megabytes of RAM to your Apple IIGS.
- Detached keyboard with numeric keypad.
- Mouse.
- Choice of standard, Dvorak, or eight international character sets.
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