Posts tagged Apple II

Applied Engineering Repository

This web site is a repository for Applied Engineering files, pictures and history. As the history page says: “Applied Engineering, headquartered in Carrollton, Texas, was the leading third-party hardware vendor for the Apple II from 1979 until March 25, 1994. Continue reading »

KansasFest

pic I just StumbleUpon this web site. KansasFest takes place each year at Rockhurst University in Kansas City, Missouri. In 2011 Bob Bishop, the co-founder of Apple’s R&D lab, will be the keynote speaker. Bob is part of the early history of the Apple computer and has developed numerous commercial software titles, worked side-by-side with Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak, written a book on assembly language programming, and published articles in most Apple II magazines.
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Preserving and Operating Early Apple Computers

This site has decided to focus on the Apple and the Apple II computers.
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The Apple “Good Ol’ Days”

I have been around Apple computers since 1980. I took a class in “Structured Programming” that loaded AppleSoft off a cassette tape as the programming language for the Apple II. But that experience was enough to convince me to get an Apple ][+ in 1981. (The plus indicated that AppleSoft was in ROM.) Continue reading »

Apple History

As you know recently we had the 25th anniversary of the Mac. But before the Mac was the Apple Computer. Apple was incorporated in April 1976.

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5 VERY VINTAGE MAC PRODUCTS

This site has some very interesting photos of early Apple history. Continue reading »

SheppyWare

SheppyWare’s web site is subtitled: “Software for the Apple II, Mac and BeOS. (Only they use all caps.) I found it by reading an article in Computer World about an Apple IIC that was recently sold on eBay for $2600. Continue reading »

The Apple II from Commodore? It almost happened

Recently, at what was billed as a 25th Anniversary of the Commodore 64, the story was told about how the two Steves invited Commodore to their garage to talk about Commodore building and selling Apple II computers with the Steves being employees. Continue reading »