Category: General

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…

Remembrance Of Days Past

I want to wish all a Merry Christmas, as we head into 2012. I have no new info to share this Christmas, but had so much fun writing my song parody last year, I decided I would share it again. I have not yet…

Update

I’ve added some info to Chapter 12, expanding on the foreign Apple II models in the pre-Apple IIe era. If anyone has further information about the ITT 2020, Apple II Europlus, or Apple II j-Plus, please feel free to share it.

Cassettes Are Cool

When I first got my hands on an Apple II Plus back in 1980, the floppy disk that Woz had made available for his prized invention was old hat (heck, this computer was up to DOS 3.3!) Because of this, I never experienced any…

Time Machine

I’ve got an exciting new exhibit in the Apple II History Museum! Thanks to the permission of Howie Shen, I have his photos of his recent acquisition of a true piece of history – An Apple II, originally purchased by someone in Palo Alto,…

Nebraska and the Apple II

Even at this late date, nearly 20 years after the end of production of the last Apple IIe, there are still little bits of the story that come to light. An article was published in the October 13, 2011 edition of The Grand Island…

Steve Jobs

We all knew was it coming, but didn’t want to hear it. The news broke yesterday evening, informing the world that Steve Jobs passed away from (presumably) recurrence of his pancreatic cancer. He didn’t get a chance to do much as chairman of the…