Bill Atkinson, who worked at Apple from 1978—two years after its founding—to 1990, died on June 5 after battling pancreatic cancer, his family wrote on Facebook. He was 74.

The real Apple IIe was the third model in the Apple II series of home computers developed by Cupertino. Released in 1983 as the successor to the Apple II Plus, it had quite a run during its 11 ...