Posted by jpluimers on 2018/05/21
From a while back: [WayBack] Open Apple #66 (December 2016) : Glenda “The Atom” Adams | Open Apple
This month on Open Apple, we sit down with Glenda Adams, better known on the Apple II as The Atom. She was a cracker of some note back in the 1980s, and she shares great stories with us…
It reminded me of the days I started to learn programming. Good memories. @glenda_atom was way ahead of me (:
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2018/04/27
It’s been a while back, but these are part of bitsavers.org:
I expect few people to still have a functioning Apple LaserWriter Pro as – despite them bing very solid devices – having them last for almost 25 years is quite a feat.
But I do know many people have machines from the Apple II through Macintosh II era, and that’s what the first manual is about. Some of the contents:
Peripheral Interface Guide rev. Jan 91
Macintosh Family Computers
Apple II Family Computers
Peripherals
Cables
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2017/11/13
For everyone who still loves and uses old computers.
Quite a few nice products for your vintage Apple II, //e and //c machines.
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Posted by jpluimers on 2017/04/03
Conditions are very, very good right now for easy, top-quality, final ingestion of original commercial Apple II Software and if you know people sitting on a pile of it or even if you have a small handful of boxes, please get in touch with me to arrange the disks to be imaged. apple@textfiles.com.
For example, piles and piles of educational software has returned from potential oblivion, because it’s about the preservation, not the title. Wonderfully done works are being brought back to life and are playable on the Internet Archive.
In other words: if you have or know someone who has disks with original, uncracked software that cannot be copied easily, let the team at the WayBack machine know as they have the resources that can help preserve that software.
–jeroen
Source: [WayBack] Please Help Us Track Down Apple II Collections « ASCII by Jason Scott
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Posted by jpluimers on 2017/02/24
I might buy this as a preventive measure: Ultimate Micro Releases the Universal PSU Kit and Upgrade – Call-A.P.P.L.E. [WayBack]
Videos of how to install are below.
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2017/02/16
I recently found some old magazine issues of my early programming escapades. It reminded me of the really old days where – as a school kid – I tried to buy Nibble magazine at a regular base. It was expensive (I think it was around 8 Dutch Guilders (or NLG) – close to EUR 4 – which was a lot for me, though less expensive than diskettes that were like NLG 10 each).
But it was fun as the magazine focussed at computer programs and programming transitioned my life. From Integer Basic via AppleSoft Basic (and various smaller attempts in FORTH, MuSimp, LISA Assembler and LOGO) to Turbo Pascal on CP/M.
Recently I learned that all issues (16k pages total!) have been scanned and OCR-ed and can be obtained on DVD for a modest price. Even better: all their software is available for free.
Just follow these links:
For some history:
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2016/08/10
something like: 100 PRINT “&F2&B&H3&W2Hello, world!”would select font #2, bold, with triple height and double width, and render “Hello!” on the high-res screen
Source: The Codeless Code: Ancient code – hand coded (on paper) 6502 assembly!
via: 6502 assemblerbeen there, done that – Thomas Mueller (dummzeuch) – Google+
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2016/03/11
Floppy Emu « Blondihacks tested this:
Plug-and-play disk emulation for your vintage Macintosh, Apple II, or Lisa! Floppy Emu is a floppy and hard disk emulator for classic Apple computers. It uses a removable SD memory card and custom hardware to mimic an Apple floppy disk and drive, or an Apple hard drive. The Emu behaves exactly like a real disk […]
–jeroen
via: This week, solid state storage for your 6502.
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Posted by jpluimers on 2015/02/21
Liz Kimber hits the nail on the head:
My first computer, is responsible for who i am today.
That’s one of the reaons I bought both an Applle //e and //c last summer (:
–jeroen
via: Alen Cox’ computer history reshare – Google+.
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Posted by jpluimers on 2014/10/13
If you ever used an Apple II with a Z80 card, then this page will look very familiar to you: Apple II with Softcard.
–jeroen
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