Month: January 2012

Top Ten Lists Of The Past

Back in the days of GEnieLamp A2 and A2-Central-On-Disk, Doug Cuff was the editor and I was a contributing writer. On one occasion, we had some fun mimicking David Letterman’s Top 10 Lists, applying it to the Apple II. And, having dug this out…

Steve Jobs, The Book

I’ve just finished the new book about Steve Jobs, written by Walter Isaacson (I listened to the CD audiobook version). I was not sure what to expect as I started it; there had been much said about this book when it was first released…

Open Apple #11

I’ve not mentioned it much before this, but one of the ways in which the retrocomputing community is telling the world about their interests and “what’s new about what’s old” is via web sites and podcasts. There are several retrocomputing podcasts to which I…

Retrocomputing News

Per Evan Koblanz of the Mid-Atlantic Retrocomputing Hobbyists (MARCH), the 2012 edition of the Vintage Computer Festival East (“8.0”) will be held on May 5-6 at the InfoAge Science Center in Wall, New Jersey. Keynote speakers will include Thomas Kurtz, who helped invent the…

John Sculley Was Our Friend

During the years when I was in the heyday of my use of the Apple II, my primary community was initially via Softalk magazine. Softalk treated all of Apple’s products with equal enthusiasm, whether the Apple II, the Apple III, or the Mac’ n…