After my last post about the help I got at the Apple Store in recoving files lost when Microsoft Word misbehaved, I have had at least five additional episodes of Word causing disk errors on my boot drive. I tried doing my editing on…
Microsoft Word 2011 and I were having a tussle this morning, as I was trying to add pictures to the Peripherals chapter. I’d copy an image and try to paste it ino the document at the appropriate place. And then the spinning rainbow ball…
I’ve added some additional info about about ORCA/M and other products from Mike Westerfield’s company, The Byte Works on the Languages chapter. The full info that I got in my short conversation with Westerfield recently is available on the Apple II History Spotlight page here.
In my History editing and revision I am up to the first chapter on Languages. In reviewing additional information about Applesoft that I found, I made two discoveries that I thought were pretty interesting. First of all: The 6502 floating-point BASIC that Apple licensed…
What I didn’t mention in my last post was what content has changed (and is then particularly in need of review): Chapter 9 – Disk Evolution and The Apple IIc Plus – more information about mass storage was added. En masse. Chapter 12 – The Apple…
I have been asked numerous times over the years to consider taking the Apple II History and to put out a print version of it. I’ve turned down the idea in the past (“It’s already online for free – why would anyone pay to…
Sorry, this just hit my funny bone today, and I had to make this picture (inspired by this Autocowrecks post): And just because it was requested, here is a way to get this on a T-shirt: http://www.cafepress.com/AppleIIHistoryShop
No, this is not a post about a post-apolyptic world in which all books are burned (like Ray Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451), nor is it about a world in which everything is beige (which almost happened with computers in the 1990s, until Steve Jobs returned…
The latest edition of the Open Apple, the Apple II community’s only actively updated podcast (hint, hint, Mr. Vanston!) is now available for download. Ken and Mike speak with Michael Mahon, the creator of NadaNet, the AppleCrate parallel processing Apple II, and co-creator of…
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…