Category: Book

Polishing Apples

I haven’t said much about the upcoming book for a while, primarily because I’ve been busily at work making corrections, revisions, and in some cases additions to the material. The editor going over the material is not an Apple II person, which is actually…

Sophistication & Simplicity

Just over twenty years ago, the final part of the Apple II History was uploaded to the A2 Roundtable on GEnie. From a series of newsletter articles explaining the various models of Apple II computers released by Apple, it had evolved into a much…

Home Stretch

I am closer to getting this book thing a done deal. However, I could use help from the Apple II History audience regarding a couple of pictures. When I first collected pictures to spice up the text-only Apple II History years ago, I was…

Book Progress

I’ve not said anything about the upcoming Apple II History book for some time. Still working on it; have every chapter of material here put into proper book form, and have also added a chapter that is not on this web site, and working…

Moving Forward

Thought I’d post an update on progress on the book. I’ve completed revision and updates on chapters 16 & 17 on Languages, chapter 18 on Software, and chapter 19 on AppleWorks. Now digging into Chapters 20 and 21, about Magazines.

(Beep!) *** iBooks ERROR

One glitch I’ve just discovered tonight about creating a book in Apple’s fancy iBooks Author program is that it doesn’t support footnotes. Seems kind of strange for a tool that is supposed to be for textbooks (footnotes, endnotes, bibliography, and index are important features…